I always feel the cynicism is reality with maybe an alternate spelling or something because I feel that I have real perspective on this particular issue of punishment in society.

I'm short enough and ugly enough to succeed on my own.

It's all through the actors; I cannot write in that idiom

The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.

I have great faith in the actors. When they improvise, it always sounds better than the stuff I write in my bedroom. When they improvise, they make it sound alive.

What was the scandal? I fell in love with this girl, married her. We have been married for almost 15 years now.

Sygmnd was a poor Austrian who'd lost all the vowels in his name in a boating accident.