I enjoy writing dialogue; it comes naturally to me.

I like plays where people talk a lot. Conversation is sustained. Argument is sustained.

I don't really have a system or set of principles. It's kind of common sense mixed up with instinct.

It's probably unprecedented for a filmmaker simply to take the writers' script and treat it as the instructions on the package. What really happens is you pretty much suppress your own instincts - and your own views on the matter - and write things the way filmmakers would like to have them, though the filmmakers often don't know what they want. They can only find out by reading what you do.

We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.

The names for things don't come first. Words stagger after, hopelessly trying to become the sensation.

I will take his secret to the grave, telling people I meet on the way.