What's the inside of a shark smell like? I always thought it would smell like chicken.

Some stage directions you just simply have to throw away.

If you're playing the character, you could say to yourself in 16 different ways, 'What if that didn't bother me?' 'What if I knew exactly what he was talking about?' 'What if I didn't get excited?'

When you get a chance to work with Aaron Sorkin, you don't say no. You drop everything you're doing.

People come along and impose their own stuff on plays, and it shows.

I don't think anyone can really make up their mind and say, Now I'm going to be a director.

He was humbled by her infinite love toward him - it shone through even in his afterlife.

What would happen if we spoke the truth?

There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.

Most of the things I do are misunderstood. Hey, after all, being misunderstood is the fate of all true geniuses, is it not?

Faith is a padlock of the mind, and few keys can open it.

At a recent education summit, President Obama admitted that he can't rap. When they heard, Americans said, 'Good!'

I basically was a precocious little kid.

I was a bedwetter until I was about 15, and it was humiliating.

A villain always preferred luring the heroine to his lair.

I contend that in the kind of nonfiction I write, and that other people also pursue, anything is permissible provided the reader knows what you're taking liberties with.