Anyone can write five people trapped in a snowstorm. The question is how you get them into the snowstorm. It's hard to write a good play because it's hard to structure a plot. If you can think of it off the top of your head, so can the audience. To think of a plot that is, as Aristotle says, surprising and yet inevitable, is a lot, lot, lot of work.

If the scene bores you when you read it, rest assured it WILL bore the actors, and will then bore the audience, and we're all going to be back in the breadline.

The terror and beauty of the dream come from the connection of previously unrelated mundanities of life.

There is a profound and ineradicable taint of antisemitism in the British.

Almost all movie scripts contain material that cannot be filmed.

Luck, if there is such a thing, is either going to favor everyone equally or going to exhibit a preference for the prepared.

My dad was an immigrant kid and a Democrat and a Jew, and we didn't know any Republicans in our group. So I grew up Democratic. My dad was a labor lawyer - a very hardworking guy, a one-horse labor lawyer - and then I went to hippie college and lived in the bubble.