“Fox: It's lonely at the top.Gould: But it ain't crowded.”

“It's only words... unless they're true.”

“We all hope. It's what keeps us alive.”

“Everybody makes their own fun. If you don't make it yourself, it isn't fun. It's entertainment.”

“Life in the movie business is like the beginning of a new love affair: it's full of surprises, and you're constantly getting fucked.”

“It's called a confidence game. Why? Because you give me your confidence? No. Because I give you mine.”

“Anyone can write five people trapped in a snowstorm. The question is how you get them into the snowstorm. It's hard to write a good play because it's hard to structure a plot. If you can think of it off the top of your head, so can the audience. To think of a plot that is, as Aristotle says, surprising and yet inevitable, is a lot, lot, lot of work.”