It is better to be quotable than to be honest.

I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half will do.

Good things, when short, are twice as good.

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

If the audience is made to do not enough work, they resent it without knowing it. Too much and they get lost. There's a perfect pace to be found. And a perfect place that is different for every line of the play.

To be frank: the translations that often sound bad in the mouths of the actors, these have often been done by linguists.

I don't keep a diary and I throw away nearly all the paper I might have kept. I don't keep an archive. There's something worrying about my make-up that I try to leave no trace of myself apart from my plays.