It's probably unprecedented for a filmmaker simply to take the writers' script and treat it as the instructions on the package. What really happens is you pretty much suppress your own instincts - and your own views on the matter - and write things the way filmmakers would like to have them, though the filmmakers often don't know what they want. They can only find out by reading what you do.

I like plays where people talk a lot. Conversation is sustained. Argument is sustained.

You think human nature is a beast, that it must be put in a cage. But it's the cage that makes the animal bad.

Save the gerund and screw the whale.

All mystical experience is coincidence; and vice versa, of course.

War is capitalism with the gloves off.

Well I believe in the desirability of an optimal society.