The work of the director is the work of constructing the shot list from the script.

Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills.

Film is a collaborative business: bend over.

The quality I most admire in a man is steadfastness.

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.

A liberal pretending to be a conservative? That's like a straight person pretending to be gay to get greater acceptance.

Don't write stage directions. If it is not apparent what the character is trying to accomplish by saying the line, tell us how the character said it or whether or not she moved to the couch isn't going to aid the case.