Writing a novel is an incredibly free experience. One puts one's self in a narrative mode. You can go off in any direction - the past, the future, or go laterally, or include one's own beliefs. It's total freedom.

Movies were never an art form, they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there, and it's still evolving in different ways.

The liberals in my neighbourhood wouldn't give away Brentwood to the Palestinians, but they want to give away Tel Aviv.

Opportunity may knock, but it seldom nags.

The correct unit of study is not the play; it is the scene.

Art is about the spontaneous connection of the artist to his own unconscious - about insight beyond reason. If his insight were reasonable, anyone could do it, but anyone cannot. Only few can, and they are called.

Make the audience wonder what's going on by putting them in the same position as the protagonist.