You're familiar with the tragedies of antiquity, are you? The great homicidal classics?

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

I consider myself to be a very fortunate person and to have led a very fortunate life.

The unpredictable and the predetermined unfold together to make everything the way it is.

Once rehearsals are done the writer really doesn't have a function on the set. If the script is stabilized, then the writer becomes a celebrity tourist visiting the set, trying not to get in the way. It's very good for the ego, to go visit a film set if you are the writer, because they give you a special chair, and tell you where you can sit to watch the monitor. They make you feel special, but at the same time, they make it perfectly plain that you are irrelevant!

Underneath runs the main current of preoccupation, which is keeping one's nose clean at all times. This means that when things go wrong you have to pass the blame along the line, like pass-the-parcel, till the music stops.

Fantasy flows in where fact leaves a vacuum.