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

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.

The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy.

I've got no interest in educating or instructing people.

Each move is dictated by the previous one--that is the meaning of order

No matter how imperfect things are, if you've got a free press everything is correctable, and without it everything is concealable.

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.