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.

A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue.

Worry is interest paid in advance on a debt that never comes due.

Obama is a tyrant the same way FDR was a tyrant. He has a view of presidential power that states: the government is in control of the country, and the president is in charge of the government. He's taken an imperial view of the presidency.

Every fear hides a wish.

When we leave the play saying how spectacular the sets or costumes were, or how interesting the ideas, it means we had a bad time.

People only speak to get something.