The study of acting consists in the main of getting out of one’s own way, and in learning to deal with uncertainty and being comfortable being uncomfortable.

A good writer gets better only by learning to cut, to remove the ornamental, the descriptive, the narrative, and especially the deeply felt and meaningful. What remains? The story remains.

Art and mass entertainment and propaganda, they can all be plotted on the same graph, but there is a difference.

I love Superman. I'm a big fan of anyone who can make his living in his underwear.

I love all insider memoirs. It doesn't matter whether it's truck-drivers or doctors. I think everybody likes to go backstage, find out what people think and what they talk about and what specialised job they have.

Put. That coffee. Down. Coffee's for closers only.

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.