What work you do! It's strange work for a Christian girl to hang old women!

What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all.

If I see an ending, I can work backward.

People do look to others for some leadership, and it's not bad for them to supply it when they feel that way.

The job is to ask questions - it always was - and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.

The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes.

A character is defined by the kinds of challenges he cannot walk away from. And by those he has walked away from that cause him remorse.