Roger Avary, Peter Berg, and Congo

"To grab someone by the scrotum is gay -- if you grab a man by the balls, you mean business. Trust me, Neil -- this is my territory. Have him grab him by the BALLS."
-Roger Avary to Neil Gaiman

"Talent is luck."
-Manhattan

"Of course, Toole was one-in-a-million. Most unappreciated writers are unappreciated because they suck."
-Craig Mazin

“J.T (Petty) is doing the weight of the writing on it, but I’m going to take all the credit."
-Peter Berg on the upcoming Splinter Cell film

"Well he can shove his law up his ass, if just one word of it says I can't stand by my friend."
-Preacher

"This whole place does the shimmy."
-Congo

"You don't put on a condom unless you're gonna fuck!"
-Crimson Tide

"The bitch ate my haircut."
-Comedian

"The story goes that NASA spent millions trying to develop a pen that would write upside down to be used in space. The russians solved the problem… they gave their cosmonauts a pencil. In other words… sometimes the low-tech, no frills solution is the best. We’ll spend days trying to think up some crazy, complex plot device, and then look at each other and say, 'the pencil.'"
-Derek Haas