Of all forms of fiction, autobiography is the most gratuitous.

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

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

You can't but know that if you can capture the emotions of the audience as well as their minds, the play will work better, because it's a narrative art form.

My scripts are possibly too talkative.

I can put two and two together, you know. Do not think you are dealing with a man who has lost his grapes.

There's something scary about stupidity made coherent.