The theatre is the best way of showing the gap between what is said and what is seen to be done, and that is why, ragged and gap-toothed as it is, it has still a far healthier potential than some poorer, abandoned arts.

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

The future of American film lies on television.

You cant get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.

The great mystery of adaptation is that true fidelity can only be achieved through lavish promiscuity.

The theatre is the best way of showing the gap between what is said and what is seen to be done, and that is why, ragged and gap-toothed as it is, it has still a far healthier potential than some poorer, abandoned arts.

The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft.