Theodor Adorno

The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice.

Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

Although I write to entertain, and try to keep my work free of didacticism, I do have a rather passionate belief in our need to be connected to - and to learn from - history.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

The way I like to describe Hollywood today is this: everyone wants to make 'Deliverance,' but no one wants to be Ned Beatty.