I write for film or, in this case, television when I haven't got a play cooking.

Player: Relax. Respond. That's what people do. You can't go through life question your sitution at every turn.

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.

A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors.

One bulls-eye and you're rich and famous. The rich get more famous and the famous get rich. You're the talk of the town....The sense of so much depending on success is very hard to ignore, perhaps impossible. It leads to disproportionate anxiety and disproportionate relief or disappointment.

We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.

He's never known anything like it! But then, he has never known anything to write home about, so this is nothing to write home about.