It's always painful when you're writing memoirs because you've got to go through the dark places, but it gives you a chance to find out the person you really are, not the person you thought you were.

I don't like dating or just living with a woman. I like to create a relationship, a marriage. And almost all of my marriages have involved children, so I'm really a family man as well.

You get attached to the way you write, and I'm attached to notebooks. That's where I really write the plays. Just two or three pages at a time, then I transfer to the typewriter and rewrite while I type.

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

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

I understand. You work very hard two days a week and you need a five-day weekend. That's normal.

Once you start compromising your thoughts, you're a candidate for mediocrity.