Alice: It's the only way to leave. "I don't love you anymore. Goodbye." Dan: Supposing you do still love them? Alice: You don't leave.

I don't love you anymore. Goodbye.

Alice: I don’t love you anymore. Goodbye. Dan: Since when? Alice: Now. Just now.

I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I started reading novels. I'll defend it to the hilt. When theatre is good it is fabulous.

Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.

A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.

I'm a Golden Globe nominee, yes. It's very nice. It's a very nice thing, but I kind of think of all the awards I wasn't ever nominated for, for years and things.

I'm constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency.

Well, you just know, as a writer, I didn't really write one of the five best screenplays of the year. There were lots of brilliant screenplays; I was just one of the lucky ones who got nominated.

When you're in your early 20s your love life seems to explode every 20 minutes or so. By the time you've reached your thirties, it is every five or ten years.

When I look back I can't believe I was so stupid as to direct Dealer's Choice.

For a girl there is a shorter version of youth.

He had a courtly way of exclaiming over whatever was exclaimable in people – especially kids.

Then she leant over and kissed him very slowly, with infinite tenderness. As if she had had to wait an eternity to do so.

It is at despair at not being able to be noble and beautiful by natural means that we have made up our faces so strangely.

Home is not where you live but where they understand you.

Truth is the root, but human sympathy is the flower of practical life.

When you get so tired that you realize you cannot generate righteousness, come on back and I'll tell you about a gift.

I fear that I am losing my mind. But really, it would not be such a precious thing to lose, as it only causes me pain.

Giants. We must face them. Yet we need not face them alone.

You like blue eyes, huh?" "Yes. I do. I like blue eyes.