Actors! The mechanics of cheap melodrama! That isn't death! You scream and choke and sink to your knees but it doesn't bring death home to anyone- it doesn't catch them unawares and start the whisper in their skulls that says- 'One day you are going to die.

I was so thrilled being a reporter, because it gave you the kind of access to people that you wouldn't ever get to meet.

I've never written an original piece for film; all the original things I've done are for the stage.

In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed dramaticness.

The fact is that people are attracted to new work and by new work.

Sometimes directors feel a script needs something, but they're not sure what it is, so they show it to a friend; if the friend is a writer, he ends up kicking around with that script for a while.

...reality, the name we give to the common experience.