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.

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.

President Obama seems to understand the Constitution as a 'set of suggestions.'

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

A good writer gets better only by learning to cut, to remove the ornamental, the descriptive, the narrative, and especially the deeply felt and meaningful. What remains? The story remains.

I love working on a typewriter - the rhythm, the sound; it's like playing the piano, which I do, too.

It is the objective of the protagonist that keeps us in our seats.