We are not sufficiently astonished by the fact that any science may be possible.
Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It's almost a form of meditation- an investigation of my own life.
He's too nervous to kill himself. He wears his seat belt in a drive-in movie.
If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet.
If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.
Rewriting is when writing really gets to be fun. . . . In baseball you only get three swings and you're out. In rewriting, you get almost as many swings as you want and you know, sooner or later, you'll hit the ball.
I firmly believe that if you follow a path that interests you, not to the exclusion of love, sensitivity, and cooperation with others, but with the strength of conviction that you can move others by your own efforts, and do not make success or failure the criteria by which you live, the chances are you'll be a person worthy of your own respects.
I'm very blessed and fortunate that people want to go see my movies.
You see a guy with one leg, he's got a story. "Land mine '69. " You see a guy with one arm, he's got a story, too. "Snow blower, bottle of whiskey. " You see a guy with one tooth, what would the story be? "Well, uh, I like a lot of taffy. "
So don't get cynical. Cynicism didn't put a man on the moon. Cynicism has never won a war, or cured a disease, or built a business, or fed a young mind. Cynicism is a choice. And hope will always be a better choice.
Embrace what makes you unique, even if it makes others uncomfortable. i didn't have to become perfect because I've learned throughout my journey that perfection is the enemy of greatness.