Narrative drives most of economics. Everything seems to be part of a story, and how that story is told often leads to critical error.

TV producers want ratings and are willing to do nearly anything to get them. They gin up artificial conflicts and create an urgency for even the most minor of economic data points.

We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.

Any Wall Street advertising that does not go into the boring details of methodology is most likely to be pushing past performance.

It's not the money. It's not the fame. It's the influence.

Nowadays you really have to pump out that blockbuster in order to have the luxury of getting a body of work, and that's sad because the work suffers. Today everything is based on money. The older actors, they inspire me.

The tragedy is that there is so much more incentive - money - to destroy the ecology than there is to preserve it.

Kazan was an old friend, I met him in 1938. He picked up radio jobs for eating money, so I met him on a couple of radio shows. Later on I was in a play he directed.