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

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.

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.

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.

since destiny always rings three times...

You can understand conflict, but you don'thave to live in it.

The vices and moral weakness of man are not invincible: Man is perfectible, or in other words, susceptible of perpetual improvement.

A perfectly clear photograph is a distortion of reality.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

I try to make two movies a year. To me, that's not too much. On top of that, I like to work.

I don't just try to be funny.

The staff, stage managers, ushers all behaved as if they respected the actors.

Being kind is the simplest way to become who we really are.

The big thing for actors is the level of commitment.