He is strong and pain is worse to the strong, incapacity is worse.

The love of freedom has been the quality of Western man.

Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ass to market; or the precipice.

Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.

I think film writing, you're thinking in pictures, and stage writing, you're thinking in dialogue. In film writing, it's also, you only get so many words, so everything has to earn its place in a really economical way. I think for stage writing, you have more leeway.

As far as the creative side, the more I do this, the more I know that it's all about the writing. We don't always celebrate that enough, but without the writing, you can't do much. You got on a film sometimes, and it's sort of half-written, and they expect and think that the actor's job is to bring the extra part and the good part. It's not.

I wanted to do film. I was living in New York and working in theater, but I always wanted to do film.

The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing.