You know, young actors say all the time, 'Should I use my own life experience?' And my response is, 'What choice do you have?'

I always thought the real violence in Hollywood isn't what's on the screen. It's what you have to do to raise the money.

Listen, here's the thing about an English degree - if you sat somebody down and asked them to make a list of the writers they admire over the last hundred years, see how many of them got a degree in English.

Do not internalize the industrial model. You are not one of the myriad interchangeable pieces, but a unique human being, and if you've got something to say, say it, and think well of yourself while you're learning to say it better.

We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder ‘censorship,’ we call it ‘concern for commercial viability.

The Oscars demonstrate the will of the people to control and judge those they have elected to stand above them (much, perhaps, as in bygone days, an election celebrated the same).

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.