The Israelis would like to live in peace within their borders; the Arabs would like to kill them all.

Welcome to Chicago. This town stinks like a whorehouse at low tide.

My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die.

The great movie can be as free of being a record of the progress of the protagonist as is a dream.

We Americans have always considered Hollywood, at best, a sinkhole of depraved venality. And, of course, it is. It is not a protective monastery of aesthetic truth. It is a place where everything is incredibly expensive.

A stage play is basically a form of uber-schizophrenia. You split yourself into two minds - one being the protagonist and the other being the antagonist. The playwright also splits himself into two other minds: the mind of the writer and the mind of the audience.

Many players will not improve because they cannot bear self-knowledge.