I tend to write a lot, which I think is the secret to being prolific.

The images in a dream are vastly varied and magnificently interesting.

Being among my people is a delight. We Jews live among ourselves. I love it.

The basis of drama is... the struggle of the hero towards a specific goal at the end of which he realises that what kept him from it was, in the lesser drama, civilisation and, in the great drama, the discovery of something that he did not set out to discover but which can be seen retrospectively as inevitable.

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

The main question in drama, the way I was taught, is always, 'What does the protagonist want?' That's what drama is. It comes down to that. It's not about theme, it's not about ideas, it's not about setting, but what the protagonist wants.

We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dream life.