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

Storytelling is like sex. We all do it naturally. Some of us are better at it than others.

To find beauty in the sad, hope in the midst of loss, and dignity in failure is great poetic art.

There's nothing in the world more silent than the telephone the morning after everybody pans your play. It won't ring from room service; your mother won't be calling you. If the phone has not rung by 8 in the morning, you're dead.

Almost all movie scripts contain material that cannot be filmed.

Roll back the clock, and every possession of every great country started with a crime.

We all die in the end, but there's no reason to die in the middle.