Everybody makes their own fun. If you don't make it yourself, it isn't fun. It's entertainment.

There's nothing in the world more silent than the telephone the morning after everybody pans your play. It won't ring from room service; your mother won't be calling you. If the phone has not rung by 8 in the morning, you're dead.

You can't rely on the acting to tell the story.

Being among my people is a delight. We Jews live among ourselves. I love it.

I've been alienating my public since I was 20 years old. When 'American Buffalo' came out on Broadway, people would storm out and say, 'How dare he use that kind of language!' Of course I'm alienating the public! That's what they pay me for.

The great movie can be as free of being a record of the progress of the protagonist as is a dream.

Like Lincoln said: "If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong," and I feel the same way about the leftist dismantling of the West. If that's not wrong, then nothing is wrong.