Please don't look at me as if you had a source of income other than your salary.

All playwrights should be dead for three hundred years.

Every screenwriter worthy of the name has already directed his film when he has written his script.

Please don't look at me as if you had a source of income other than your salary.

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

There's nothing as real as money.

There is no such thing as realistic dialogue. If you [simply recorded] the real conversation of any people and played it back from the stage, it would be impossible to listen to. It would be redundant . . . . The good dialogue writer is the one who can give you the impression of real speech.