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

My greatest fear is that the audience will beat me to the punch line.

Every fear hides a wish.

The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create.

It's hard for a Jew of my generation, an American Jew, who is philo-Zionistic, not to romanticize Israel.

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.

Any claim to actual identification as a drama must rest upon the construction of a plot independent of the assignment of affliction to the protagonist.