Characters on stage, like people in what we refer to as "real life," do not speak to reveal themselves. They do not speak to conceal themselves. They speak to get whatever it is that they want. It is the only reason they speak.

I didn't knowingly meet a conservative until, to my shame, I was 60 years old and sat down and said, 'Wow, I don't understand what this guy's talking about, but he has a great civility about him. Perhaps I better investigate this thing.'

I hate the computer. I hate their spell-check. I won't ever do e-mail.

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

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

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

When we leave the play saying how spectacular the sets or costumes were, or how interesting the ideas, it means we had a bad time.