They Have A Desire To Put On

The Basis Of Drama Is... The Struggle Of The Hero Towards A Specific Goal At The End Of Which He Realises That What Kept Him From It Was, In The Lesser Drama, Civilisation And, In The Great Drama, The Discovery Of Something That He Did Not Set Out To Discover But Which Can Be Seen Retrospectively As Inevitable.

Every Reiteration Of The Idea That Nothing Matters Debases The Human Spirit.

A Good Writer Gets Better Only By Learning To Cut, To Remove The Ornamental, The Descriptive, The Narrative, And Especially The Deeply Felt And Meaningful. What Remains? The Story Remains.

When We Fear Things I Think That We Wish For Them ... Every Fear Hides A Wish

My Tendency As An Actor Was To Correct People, Was To Say, 'what If We Tried It This Way, What About If We Tried That Way?' That's Terrible Habit For An Actor, But That's A Good Habit For Director. So I Became A Director.