The audience requires not information but drama.

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.

Everyone needs money. That's why they call it money

There is no such thing as character other than the habitual action, as Mr. Aristotle told us two thousand years ago.

In Chicago, we love our crooks!

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.

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