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.

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.

If you took away everything in the world that had to be invented, there'd be nothing left except a lot of people getting rained on.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

The results of the divorce between truth and human beings can be most graphically observed in politics.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there.