If You can't tell it to me in one sentence, they can't put it in TV Guide.

The audience will teach you how to act and the audience will teach you how to write and to direct. The classroom will teach you how to obey, and obedience in the theatre will get you nowhere. It’s a soothing falsity.

It’s not a lie. It’s a gift for fiction.

We're all put to the test... but it never comes in the form or at the point we would prefer, does it?

You know, young actors say all the time, 'Should I use my own life experience?' And my response is, 'What choice do you have?'

Get into the scene late; get out of the scene early.

The main question in drama, the way I was taught, is always, 'What does the protagonist want?' That's what drama is. It comes down to that. It's not about theme, it's not about ideas, it's not about setting, but what the protagonist wants.