We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.

Never believe in mirrors or newspapers.

Once rehearsals are done the writer really doesn't have a function on the set. If the script is stabilized, then the writer becomes a celebrity tourist visiting the set, trying not to get in the way. It's very good for the ego, to go visit a film set if you are the writer, because they give you a special chair, and tell you where you can sit to watch the monitor. They make you feel special, but at the same time, they make it perfectly plain that you are irrelevant!

To be frank: the translations that often sound bad in the mouths of the actors, these have often been done by linguists.

I'm attracted to the past.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

I burn with no causes.