They needed someone to write a script of The Great Gatsby very quickly for the movie they were making. I took this job so I'd be sure to have some dough to support my family.

Death is what makes life an event.

It was the man's dream, and his inspiring attempt to make them come true that remain important.

One thing that I'm sure of is the real pleasure of life - it's not being known, it's not having your own jet plane, it's not having a mansion the pleasure is to learn something

I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.

Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature.

I had been a kid that moved so much, I didn’t have a lot of friends. Theater really represented that kind of camaraderie.