They have a desire to put on plays and to fulfill that traditional role of a theater in a community: to be the place where people go to hear the truth.

For it is written that just as it is forbidden to partake of the forbidden, it is forbidden not to partake of the permitted.

Hitchcock denigrated American films, saying they were all 'pictures of people talking' - as, indeed, most of them are.

If you're neurotic and you think, I'm not where I deserve to be or my mother didn't love me, or blah, blah, blah, that lie, that neurotic vision, takes over your life and you're plagued by it 'til it's cleansed. In a play, at the end of the play, the lie is revealed. [T]he better the play is, the more surprising and inevitable the lie is, as Aristotle told us. Plays are about lies.

War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It's the failure of diplomacy. 'War and Peace,' 'A Farewell to Arms,' 'For Whom the Bell Tolls.' Those are some of the greatest tragedies.

Any time two characters are talking about a third, the scene is a crock of s***.

We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.