The first book was my first attempt at writing full-length prose.

[When you write a play] you walk into a forest without a knife, without a compass. But . . . if you have a sense of geography, you find that you're clearing a path and getting to the right place.

Talent is the gift plus the passion - a desire to succeed so intense that no force on earth can stop it.

Don't listen to those who say, you taking too big a chance. Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor, and it would surely be rubbed out by today.

I much prefer writing an original movie with the screen in mind to transferring a play to the screen.

I don’t like writing for comedians. I like writing for actors. The best comedians are the best actors.

Give your mind a chance to travel through foreign languages.