If the scene bores you when you read it, rest assured it WILL bore the actors, and will then bore the audience, and we're all going to be back in the breadline.
All rhetorical questions are accusations.
I go out there. I'm out there every day. [Pause] There is nothing out there.
People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they want.
I'm not the guy to ask about politics. I'm a gag writer.
In a restaurant one is both observed and unobserved. Joy and sorrow can be displayed and observed "unwittingly," the writer scowling naively and the diners wondering, What the hell is he doing?