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.

Writers feel like a middleman, standing with pen in hand over the page. A force greater than me stands above telling me what to write. That may sound romantic, but that's how it feels.

I go to see plays all the time, and whenever I see Chekhov, I'm amazed at how this Russian play strikes home to me living 100 years later in New York City. I'm drawn to him because of his way with characters and their relationships with each other.

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

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.

Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count.