When Shakespeare doesn't feel like Shakespeare, it's the best.

I much prefer to work with dead writers, and ones who were writing four hundred years ago.

If you cast your supporting cast well, it should be seamless. You shouldn't even notice who's a big part and who's a small part. A good cast enriches everything.

People grow and change and develop through their experiences, so ultimately you have to go with what's in the room - the feeling you get from them and what the camera picks up.

There's nothing like a great piece of theater - a great performance in a great piece of theater.

Curiosity is the beginning of all creativity.

If we were rational enough to judge what we are fed based on what we are fed, those in the business of selling us hope (i.e., public speakers, presidents, priests, etc.) wouldn't wear suits.

Lies breed distrust, and distrust brings conflict.

You will serve. Either someone else's vision and purpose, or your own.

Condoms aren't completely safe. A friend of mine was wearing one . . . and got hit by a bus.

I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.

I guess there's a lot we hope for that never happens.

I left advertising as fast as I could in 1961. And I haven't ever thought about going back.

Looking back, I spent a lot of time sitting in pubs when I should have been perfecting my playwriting.

I'm my own biggest marketing tool. I know the history of the business and I might as well capitalize on it.