My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one.

Keep away from fantasy. Shake off the image.

Hollywood is geared toward teenage idiocy.

Character is an essential tendency. It can be covered up, it can be messed with, it can be screwed around with, but it can't be ultimately changed. It's the structure of our bones, the blood that runs through our veins.

Sides are being divided now. It's very obvious. So if you're on the other side of the fence, you're suddenly anti-American. It's breeding fear of being on the wrong side.

You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.

I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer.