I think the job of the artist is to remind people of what they have chosen to forget.

I believe in work. If somebody doesn't create something, however small it may be, he gets sick. An awful lot of people feel that they're treading water -- that if they vanished in smoke, it wouldn't mean anything at all in this world. And that's a despairing and destructive feeling. It'll kill you.

There are many who stay away from church these days because you hardly ever mention God any more.

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

There is unquestionably a contradiction between an efficient technological machine and the flowering of human nature, of the human personality.

. . 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.

The American Dream is the largely unacknowledged screen in front of which all American writing plays itself out.