The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create.

Always do things the least interesting way, the most blunt way, and you make a better movie. This is my experience.

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

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.

They say the definition of ambivalence is watching your mother-in-law drive over a cliff in your new Cadillac.

For it is written that just as it is forbidden to partake of the forbidden, it is forbidden not to partake of the permitted.

My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library. I got what little educational foundation I got in the third-floor reading room, under the tutelage of a Coca-Cola sign.