Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it.

The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.

. . usually, the biggest problems of adapting plays into screenplays is that they stick too close to the play, and I think film is a completely different medium. I think a novel is much closer to a film.

He's liked, but he's not well liked.

That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical Greek shoemaker?

There might be a dragon with five legs in my house, but no one has ever seen it.

In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.