There's that process of writing it - then you come out of your room into the sunlight, and you now have to complete the circuit and make the connection finally with the audience.

Decisions are made by those who show up.

As an audience member, I like the sound of something that's been written - I like it to sound written. And then, of course, you can't do it without the musicians who can play it.

Tell me what you think and then tell me what the really smart person in the room who disagrees with you thinks.

This is a time for serious people, Bob, and your fifteen minutes are up.

It's nice that HBO is in business with the audience and not with the advertisers. There's a difference.

I got into dialogue because my parents began taking me to see plays from when I was very young. Too young, often, to understand the play I was watching: Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf when I was nine years old; That Championship Season when I was ten years old. But I loved the sound of dialogue; it sounded like music to me and I wanted to imitate that sound.