Against the ruin of the world, there is only one defense: the creative act.
You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow. (Oscar trying to talk his way out of a speeding ticket)
There is only one place to write and that is alone at a typewriter. The writer who has to go into the streets is a writer who does not know the streets. . . when you leave your typewriter you leave your machine gun and the rats come pouring through.
The imagination is a pretty precious source of protection.
I'll protect myself by making up all this crazy stuff. It'll be like a little shell. Like an Easter egg shell that's all decorated.
Pirates, me hearties, are the Patronus of the freelancer.
'All we need is a book,' roared Leslie; 'don't panic, hit 'em with a book.
You say I sucked at the Oscars. I was a genius at the Oscars. That was experimental tuxedo sleep art.
I'm always conscious of what I'm writing, conscious of what the actor may ask me. I have a defense for nearly every line in the song.
I think it's my job to fight. The studio makes you question your idea, and you have to prove it.
