"Writing a screenplay, for me, is like juggling. It's like, how many balls can you get in the air at once? All those ideas have to float out there to a certain point, and then they'll crystallize into a pattern."

"I love short trips to New York to me it is the finest three-day town on earth."

"I try to live with honor, even if it costs me millions of dollars and takes a long time. It's very unusual in Hollywood. Few people are trustworthy - a handshake means nothing to them. They feel they're required to keep an agreement with you only if you're successful or they need you."

"I mean, you have to be able - you have to have made the commitment within yourself to do whatever it takes to get the job done and to try to inspire other people to do it, because obviously the first rule is you can't do it by yourself."

"The very idea of marriage is basic to recognition as equals in our society any status short of that is inferior, unjust, and unconstitutional."

"Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities."

"Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination."

"The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance."