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

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 love living. I have some problems with my life, but living is the best thing they've come up with so far.

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

I never write a play with an eye to film.

I was constantly being dragged out of movies for laughing too loud.

[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.