When you're writing a movie or a play and writing isn't going well, which is for me the normal condition - it's an exceptional day when suddenly I've got something and it's going well - you can call the studio or the producer or whoever is waiting for it and say, "I know I said I was going to have it in by the end of the summer.

As a dramatist, you're looking for points of friction.

She's a person; the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news.

I want to convey that I'm crazy about the Kardashians - but I'm not sure which is which.

A hero would die for his country, but he'd much rather live for it.

The real problem with all drugs is that they work. Fantastically. They're great, right up until the moment they kill you.

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.