One movie I come back to time and again is 'The Hustler.' I don't think there's better dialogue in any film.
The time has come to end the deadly experiment of disarming peaceable, law-abiding citizens near schools.
I write in a very strange way. Things are very fragmentary for a very long time, and then they come together very quickly near the end of the process.
Other people's lives come at us without a backstory most of the time. The present is like that.
Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
At one time, whenever the hell it was, they wanted a character to come in and stir up the pot. They brought me in for 8-10 episodes and said we'll try it for that.
It's true when they say songwriting is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. In truth, what happens is... songs comes through you.
Sally: [singing] Life is a cabaret ol' chum so come to the Cabaret.
Tex Panthollow: Come on. My mama didn't raise no stupid children.
Mum: [Grossly deformed and gigantic] Come to mummy Lionel!
Sherrif Bullard: [Ominously to Ed] Let's just wait and see what comes out of the river.
Buggin' Out: Hey, Sal, how come they ain't no brothas on the wall?
[repeated line] Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago: How did you come to be lost?
Nemo: First day of school! Wake up! Come on. First day of school.
Happy Jack: I come for my due and proper.
Ringo: Come in, number seven, your time's up!
Lesra: [to Rubin] I would like to come and visit you if that would be alright.
Simon Marwan: One plus one, does it make one? It comes from Tarkovsky's Nostalghia.
Gothmog: The Age of Men is over. The Time of the Orc has come.
[first lines] Vitruvius: He's coming, cover your butts.
Algren: How's your poem coming? Katsumoto: The end is proving difficult.
