Let the cut tell the story. Otherwise you have not got dramatic action, you've got narration.

You got an all-out prize fight, you wait 'til the fight's over, one guy's left standing and that's how you know who's won.

Anyone can write five people trapped in a snowstorm. The question is how you get them into the snowstorm. It's hard to write a good play because it's hard to structure a plot. If you can think of it off the top of your head, so can the audience. To think of a plot that is, as Aristotle says, surprising and yet inevitable, is a lot, lot, lot of work.

We all hope. It's what keeps us alive.

The images in a dream are vastly varied and magnificently interesting.

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

I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say you can get further with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word.