Michael Tolkin

“It’s a company town, but the company is chaos.”

“I was just thinking what an interesting concept it is to eliminate the writer from the artistic process. If we could just get rid of these actors and directors, maybe we've got something here.”

“Movies are a world of lovers and assassins, spies, adventurers, gamblers, counterfeiters, detectives, and kidnappers. I'm just a writer.”

“The picture is the star. The director is the star. The writer is the star.”

“Satire is a prediction.”

“Your life is your own. So is your death.”

“I don't need faith. I have experience.”

“Can we talk about something other than Hollywood for a change?”