A theater person should know what holds an audience and what does not.

It doesn't bother me. Sure, everybody wants approval, but I came from the theatre and I've always treasured a remark from there which goes: 'For every six people who love you, there will be half a dozen who loathe you.' The quality of an author's work is not usually determined until after his death. Even Dickens got some pretty bad reviews.

Hate and love are essentially the same in that the person who loves is as easily manipulated as a person who hates

Well, let me tell you, gentlemen, the games of the devil are not restricted to those confined to hell. Others can play them.

Visions of one powerful scene after another parade across his inner screen, each exploding with drama and meaning

Perhaps conscience did not always produce cowards. Sometimes it made a man feel better about himself.

He wasn't smart enough to see it, said Jason Bourne. He couldn't think geometrically.