I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.

I have mad luck. I'm super-good at games like backgammon or anything that requires rolling dice.

Sometimes I feel that the people I'm writing are more real to me than the people around me. When you take that imaginative leap, you're living so much in that world.

I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as I love movies.

I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.

Nothing's going to come to you by sitting around and waiting for it.

I think action should be revealed through character, so if you have a plot problem, it's probably a character problem.

What I did have was an incredible amount of belief in myself.

I was really surprised when I started working and realized that you're actually on your own, a lot of the time. It makes you really responsible, as an actor.

I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way.

And when I get bored, it's like the worst parts of me come out. I really veer to self-destructive tendencies quickly.

The spark of wondering is the start of writing.

In College average and numbers means everything to a guy.

I don't play hockey at all. I'm not comfortable on skates.

I'm kind of interested in visual communication. For me it's more about suggesting than arguing a point.

We gave up on the idea of trying to make the record a good representation of the live performance.

Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.

Don't take anything for granite. That's what tombstones are made of.

Ease, a neutral state between pain and pleasure ... if it is not rising into pleasure will be falling towards pain.

Do one thing at a Time, and while doing it put your whole Soul into it to the exclusion of all else.

I do not want to make teaching films. If I did, I would create a separate organization. It is not higher education that interests me so much as general mass education.