The greatest films are those which show how society shapes man. The greatest plays are those which show how man shapes society.

I do not see the E.E.C. [European Economic Community] as a great love affair. It's more like nine middle aged couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope.

Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood.

No theater could sanely flourish until there was an umbilical connection between what was happening on the stage and what was happening in the world.

What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober.

A good many inconveniences attend playgoing in any large city, but the greatest of them is usually the play itself.

The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic.