I don’t even own a TV because I think it’s the devil.

There are people, the more you do for them, the less they do for themselves.

If you can’t think of what to write, tough luck; write anyway. If you can think of lots more when you’ve finished the three pages, don’t write it; it’ll be that much easier to get...

Crowds are the most difficult thing for me these days because I have to walk with my head down and my eyes averted. There’s still that part of me that wants to hold my head...

I’m not a social friend of the Reagans. That’s by their choice and by mine. They don’t drink enough.

I mean, I can get things done if I need to, but I can really be completely irresponsible and procrastinate until the very, very, very bitter end. In fact, sometimes I work better under pressure.

Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went there, but I never would. I’d spend all my life without ever going...

I grew up with a lot of boys. I probably have a lot of testosterone for a woman.

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

My only real claim to anyone’s attention lies in my writing.

Every casting director I’ve met is a woman.

One of the things that bothers me most is the growing belief in the country that security is more important than freedom. It ain’t.

I think that anything that you do, any accomplishment that you make, you have to work for. And I’ve worked very hard in the last ten years of my life, definitely, and I can tell...

Everything has a meaning, if only we could read it.

I was a tough kid with the jeans, the concert shirt with the flannel over it, the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair.

Accidents, try to change them it’s impossible. The accidental reveals man.

One curious thing about growing up is that you don’t only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents’ and grandparents’ lives come to you.

Everything’s a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There’s no guarantee.

Several things about Reagan are unusual in a public man. He was not a typical politician at all, but a private man in public life.

I will always want to do whatever it is that my heart is in, and whether I get paid for it or not means nothing. It doesn’t matter. I’ll do it if it means something...

True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.

You don’t want to be photographed? You don’t want to be known? Then you don’t need to be out there peddling movies.

A better educated electorate might change the reason many persons vote.

What I couldn’t help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a morning by trying to write a page of one than I’d learned in seven years or so of trying to...