If people have split views about your work, I think it's flattering. I'd rather have them feel something about it than dismiss it.

My personal life and my artistic life do not interfere with each other.

The more you cling to things, The more you love them, The more the pain you suffer, When they're taken from you.

Sometimes I'll ask the book writer to write a monologue, not to be performed, just as if they were notes for the character.

You can't have personal investors anymore because it's too expensive, so you have to have corporate investment or a lot of rich people.

Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other.

With videotaping, on the second generation you're already losing some of the freshness.