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

Only criminals and adulterers should have to hide who they are.

We live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns.

I think it's up to writers to write stuff that is compelling enough that people want to watch.

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.

If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.

You can only write, 'Somebody wants something, something else is in their way of getting it.'