Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.

. . 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.

Charley: He won't starve. None a them starve. Forget about him. Willy: Then what have I got to remember?

The jungle is dark but full of diamonds, Willy.

Every time I am reading actors I can pretty well tell which ones have studied with Meisner. It is because they are honest and simple and don't lay on complications that aren't necessary.

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

My plays are always involved with society, but I'm writing about people, too, and it's clear over the years that audiences understand them and care about them. The political landscape changes, the issues change, but the people are still there. People don't really change that much.