Here's what happens in a play. You get involved in a situation where something is unbalanced. If nothing's unbalanced, there's no reason to have a play. If Hamlet comes home from school, and his dad's not dead and asks him if he's had a good time, it's boring. But if something's unbalanced, it must be returned to order.

There's something in me that just wants to create dialogue.

The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil, that there must be opposition, between its various branches, and between political parties, for these are the only ways to temper the individual's greed for power and the electorates' desires for peace by submission to coercion or blandishment.

It is the writer’s job to make the play interesting. It is the actor’s job to make the performance truthful.

The surprise is half the battle. Many things are half the battle, losing is half the battle. Let's think about what's the whole battle.

Always do things the least interesting way, the most blunt way, and you make a better movie. This is my experience.

I'm greedy and ambitious like everybody else.