Night after night, through years of performing and directing, I've stood in awe of the audience, of its capacity for response. As if by magic, masks fall away, faces become vulnerable, receptive. Filmgoers do not defend their emotions, rather they open to the storyteller in ways even their lovers never know, welcoming laughter, tears, terror, rage, compassion, passion, love, hate--the ritual often exhausts them.

In life two negatives don't make a positive. Double negatives turn positive only in math and formal logic. In life things just get worse and worse and worse.

The Law of Diminishing Returns is true of everything in life, except sex, which seems endlessly repeatable with effect.

All writing is discipline, but screenwriting is a drill sergeant.

Never sleep with anybody who has more problems than you do.

Politics is the name we give to the orchestration of power in any society.

Oh, by the way, I tend to use a lot of profanities. I do that for a reason: I like it.