Everyone thinks they can write a play; you just write down what happened to you. But the art of it is drawing from all the moments of your life.

I don't like losing the words, as you have to, when I'm asked to turn a play into a movie. It's not a matter of ego . . . I'm just better able to create the character for an audience through words rather than through actions.

Sports is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the ending.

Money brings some happiness. But after a certain point, it just brings more money.

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

I firmly believe that if you follow a path that interests you, not to the exclusion of love, sensitivity, and cooperation with others, but with the strength of conviction that you can move others by your own efforts, and do not make success or failure the criteria by which you live, the chances are you'll be a person worthy of your own respects.

There are two million interesting people in New York and only seventy-eight in Los Angeles.