You're dead, George. You just don't have the sense to lie down.

A person can't change all at once.

American grammar doesn't have the sturdiness of British grammar, but it has its own scruffy charm.

As always at these times when he felt really in need of God the front of his mind was serene, but the deeper part, where faith did constant battle with doubt, was terrified that there would be no answer.

Directing teenage actors is like juggling jars of nitro-glycerine: exhilarating and dangerous.

I'm afraid of all kinds of things. I'm afraid of failing at whatever story I'm writing - that it won't come up for me, or that I won't be able to finish it.

And people who don’t dream, who don’t have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must go nuts. I can’t imagine that.