I think it is the responsibility of critics to rely less strenuously on, to use a Hollywood phrase, "what they can live with," and more on an examination of the works of art from an aesthetic and clinical point of view.

School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians

Art should never try to be popular.

The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.

I think I was probably wondering, having looked at human beings for a long time, wondering if evolution ever took place. And I still have my doubts.

I think you remember everything ... you just can't bring it to mind all the time.

If I've been accused a number of times of writing plays where the endings are ambivalent, indeed, that's the way I find life.