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.

I don't love you anymore. Goodbye.

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.

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

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.

People only accept change in necessity and see necessity only in crisis.

Men think they like to be challenged. The truth is, they only like to be challenged if they win.

My eyes meet his and I understand exactly what he's saying. He's my person. He's my home.

No matter how well things are going, failure and disaster are just around the corner. So celebrate the good, but be ready for the bad.

We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.

The United States, as all you know, did not come to Iraq for oil, not to occupy. We came here only to help.

Onstage, nothing is as important as truth, nothing. As soon as you lie, they know it.

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.

I wouldn't say that I'm overly religious, but I have a pretty good relationship with my spiritual being.

Might we not say that every child at play behaves like a creative writer, in that he creates a world of his own, or, rather, rearranges the things of his world in a new way which pleases him?