If your ethics in the military, in your training, is going to be counterminded by a one-hour weekly television show we've got a really big problem.
A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it.
Credit you give yourself is not worth having.
If it isn’t for the writing, we’ve got nothing. Writers are the most important people in Hollywood. And we must never let them know it.
The most important person in the motion picture process is the writer. . . and we must do everything in our power to prevent them from ever realizing it.
Compliments you pay to yourself aren't worth having.
Screen credit is valuable only when it's given you. If you're in a position to give yourself credit, you don't need it.
It had more layers than an onion. These writers meant business. There was a level for everybody. Your major could be celestial mechanics, and there'd be celestial-mechanics jokes.
I often think people on opposite sides of the political spectrum may have similar values around care, around thriving or around independence, or around helping the disadvantaged, but they have different ideologies, different ideas and philosophies about how to go about that. It's important that we start to see each others humanness, while at the same time not losing sight of those differences, views and speeches and actions that do cause harm, that we're clearly taking a stand against.
One does not kill by anger but by laughter.
I don't cook, 'cause I don't know how to cook.