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.

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

It's hard to write a good plot, it's very hard.

Storytelling is like sex. We all do it naturally. Some of us are better at it than others.

I've always been more comfortable sinking while clutching a good theory than swimming with an ugly fact.

Every reiteration of the idea that nothing matters debases the human spirit.

President Obama seems to understand the Constitution as a 'set of suggestions.'