You talk about auteur de cinema having things in their heads and putting them all across, can you imagine Shakespeare writing screenplays?

I love working with young people, which is to me a big kick.

He's a scoundrel, young Brad Pitt, who led me, his elderly colleague, astray more than once.

Question: How do you know you're God? Answer: Simple. When I pray to him, I find I'm talking to myself.

George Eliot is my only steady girlfriend. We go to bed together every night.

Most difficult thing in the world, to write a play. Do you know the story of Shaw at the Fabian society? H.G. Welles said "I'm terribly sorry I've missed the last five meetings, I've been terribly busy, I'm engaged in writing a scientific pamphlet on the effects of radioactivity in 1984 and I've produced a novel, and various pieces of science fiction to do, and I've had a bit of personal trouble, and I had my copy to bring out for the newspaper." Shaw leapt up and said, "I've not missed one meeting, and I have written a play!" hardest thing in the world. If it were easy they'd all be at it.

I will not be an ordinary man, because I have a right to be extraordinary.