Any claim to actual identification as a drama must rest upon the construction of a plot independent of the assignment of affliction to the protagonist.

There is no such thing as character other than the habitual action, as Mr. Aristotle told us two thousand years ago.

I love working on a typewriter - the rhythm, the sound; it's like playing the piano, which I do, too.

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.

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

A man stands alone at the plate. This is the time for what? For individual achievement. There he stands alone. But in the field, what? Part of a team.

Society functions in a way much more interesting than the multiple-choice pattern we have been rewarded for succeeding at in school. Success in life comes not from the ability to choose between the four presented answers, but from the rather more difficult and painfully acquired ability to formulate the questions.