I know very well what it is to be out of work and to be cheated by employers and I know what it is to be an employer.

People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they want.

Forget narrative, backstory, characterisation, exposition, all of that. Just make the audience want to know what happens next.

The job of the artist, is to say, wait a second, everything that we have thought is wrong. Let's re-examine it.

People ask me, 'What do you do?' And I tell them I'm a writer, but always with the silent reservation, 'I am, of course, not really a writer. Hemingway was a writer.'

What we're trying to do is find two or more shots the juxtaposition of which will give us the idea.

Any claim to actual identification as a drama must rest upon the construction of a plot independent of the assignment of affliction to the protagonist.