Broadway remains the closest thing we have to a national theatre, the place where the greatest number of people can potentially see new work. For an American playwright to say it doesn't matter is simply to capitulate to the current situation.

You'll find, my friend, that what you love will take you places you never dreamed you'd go.

As much as I hate his movies, Oliver Stone has an aspiration I admire, and that is that he wants his art to be part of what makes and changes public policy and cultural practice.

I tend to be sort of quiet and shy and awkward in social situations.

In a way, film and television are in the same sort of traumatic trance that print journalism is. The technology has outpaced our comprehension of its implications.

It's the fear of what comes after the doing that makes the doing hard to do.

Nothing's lost forever.