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!

If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that. But, if you want to just alter the chemistry of the moral matrix, then theater has a longer half-life.

The fact is that people are attracted to new work and by new work.

I take every possible side.

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

Better a fallen rocket than never a burst of light.

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