I have a lot of Ideas. Ideas excite me. Walt Disney

An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius. Billy Wilder

You're assisting the audience to understand; you're giving them a bridge or an access. And if you don't give them that, if you keep it more abstract, it's almost more pure. It's a cooler thing. Jim Hensen

In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing. Will Rogers

A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard. Billy Wilder

No right or wrong in creative work – no way to teach originality. My most recent efforts were just as frustrating as the early books, alas!! Experience - practice - doesn’t make the work easier, in fact it may be more difficult after so many books. The more ideas one has used up, the less he has coming. Bill Peet

Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is. Steve Martin

There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can. Clint Eastwood

Creation is a drug I can't do without. Cecil B. DeMille

People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning. Steven Spielberg

When I plan a story I make lots of sketches of the characters. After I draw them I know them better, then I find it easier to write about them.Bill Peet

A cliche is a cliche because it works. George Lucas

Originality often leads to obscurity. Vance Gerry