I've always been more comfortable sinking while clutching a good theory than swimming with an ugly fact.

What I value most in my friends is loyalty.

Every scene should be able to answer three questions: "Who wants what from whom? What happens if they don't get it? Why now?"

The honest man might observe... that no one gets something for nothing; that politicians go in poor and go out rich; that the Government screws up everything it touches; and that the Will to Believe is best confined to the Religious Venue, as to practice it elsewhere is just too damned expensive.

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

I've always been more comfortable sinking while clutching a good theory than swimming with an ugly fact.

I don't have any experience with film schools. I suspect that they're useless, because I've had experience with drama schools, and have found them to be useless.