What I hate about kitchen-sink dramas is [this idea] that the set is real, therefore you're going to be seeing truth. You have to earn truth. Truth can't be a part of the fact that people appear to talk that way and live in that room. You're looking for the poetry in something, and I don't mean poetry in the fancy sense. Naturalism believes by just replicating a thing you give the truth, rather than earning the truth.

Show business offers more solid promises than Catholicism.

Oh, I never use a seat belt. I don't believe in gravity.

I'm sure there are some good dramaturgs but I've never worked with one.

You don't push the button that says "Now I will write something that resonates in time." You don't know. It's what happens after a play is finished.

Does any art have a practical value? People love to talk about how expensive a painting is. That's the only way we can talk about paintings in this century.

The rich live hand-to-mouth too-just on a higher level.