Film can express things that computers never will. Film is a series of photographs separated by split seconds of darkness. Film is light and shadow.

I was a very self-righteous 15-25 year old. Anyway, I wake up every morning and thank God I'm not a kid anymore.

I was raised by a single psychologist mother and we spent every evening sitting at the kitchen table and dissecting our emotions and speculating about the inner life of everyone we knew.

I never had a lot of ideas. I always have exactly one that is the next project; the idea of a project beyond that project is ludicrous.

Yeah, I have the detail-obsessed, controlling personality of a novelist, but I somehow ended up writing plays.

I'm terrible at speaking extemporaneously about my work - I get completely tongue-tied and consumed with fear.

I think growing up in a small town, the kind of people I met in my small town, they still haunt me. I find myself writing about them over and over again.

I don't enjoy hearing the sound of my voice. The most important things for me are impossible to articulate extemporaneously.

There are certain early plays of mine that I really don't like, but I can't imagine going back and fixing them. I would be totally incapable of it. I'm not in the head of the characters anymore.

If anything, I was the opposite of most college students who think they can do anything.

Writing is my primary way of expressing myself.

Rationality and calm self-determination were one of the great illusions of the universe... in the end, we were all ruled by our passions.

PALATABLE CRITICISM: In a performance review, don't offer more than three criticisms. That's all an employee can digest.

Thank you for a wonderful night. Your carriage awaits downstairs. -Oliver

People of great power wield great power, but people of lesser power or people who have fallen out of power go to jail without adequate evidence, or their bodies are found in the trunks of cars.

Center Stage focused on the drive and what it's like to be a student, and this is what it's like to be an adult and what you need to give up in the pursuit of that passion and that focus.

Whenever you interact with people,don't be there primarily as a function or a role,But as a Field of conscious Presence

Life is what matters, life alone - the continuous, eternal process of discovering life - and not the discovery itself.

Sometimes there is nothing you can do, and in those times, you must do something anyway.

A nation that is Christian at its heart doesn't need to write it into law.

Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good: Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.