I burn with no causes.

The whole notion of journalism being an institution whose fundamental purpose is to educate and inform and even, one might say, elevate, has altered under commercial pressure, perhaps, into a different kind of purpose, which is to divert and distract and entertain.

I don't act, I don't direct, I don't design.

You can persuade a man to believe almost anything provided he is clever enough, but it is much more difficult to persuade someone less clever.

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.

In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed dramaticness.

My scripts are possibly too talkative.