Parents and schools should place great emphasis on the idea that it is all right to be different. Racism and all the other 'isms' grow from primitive tribalism, the instinctive hostility against those of another tribe, race, religion, nationality, class or whatever. You are a lucky child if your parents taught you to accept diversity.

It's hard to explain the fun to be found in seeing the right kind of bad movie.

Improvisation is a weird word because we often think it means that you make things up out of whole cloth right there on the spot, and that's rarely the case in acting. You have to know who the character is, what the situation is and what is needed.

Just write, get better, keep writing, keep getting better. It's the only thing you can control.

I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of death to fear. I hope to be spared as much pain as possible on the approach path. I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state.

It's easier to identify with loss than love, because we have had so much more experience of it.

Teenagers used to go to the movies to see adults having sex. Today adults go to the movies to see teenagers having sex.