Audiences know what to expect, and that is all that they are prepared to believe in.

Your opinions are your symptoms.

Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much.

Having translated two plays by Chekhov, and not speaking Russian myself - I cannot say one sentence. This may shock people... However, I am not shocked, as it is not hard to find out what the words mean.

There's something scary about stupidity made coherent.

Rewriting isn't just about dialogue, it's the order of the scenes, how you finish a scene, how you get into a scene. All these final decisions are best made when you're there, watching. It's really enjoyable, but you've got to be there at the director's invitation. You can't just barge in and say, "I'm the writer."

A writer doesn't really have much of a function on a movie set.