The popularity of disaster movies expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted at the last moment. Their thinly veiled symbolic meaning might be translated thus: We are innocent of wrongdoing. We are attacked by unforeseeable forces come to harm us. We are, thus, innocent even of negligence. Though those forces are insuperable, chance will come to our aid and we shall emerge victorious.

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.

Any time two characters are talking about a third, the scene is a crock of s***.

Fun is what you do for yourself. If somebody else does it, it's entertainment.

I've always been fascinated by the picaresque.

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.

I'm responding to the will of the people.