As Long As The Protagonist Wants Something,

We All Die In The End, But There's No Reason To Die In The Middle.

Fun Is What You Do For Yourself. If Somebody Else Does It, It's Entertainment.

My Dad Was A Labour Lawyer, And The Ideas That I Grew Up With - Bad Management, Bad Capitalism, Robber Barons - When I Applied This To My Own Life, I Saw That We Are All On Both Sides Of The Coin.

A Play Is Basically A Long, Formalistic Polemic. You Can Write It Without The Poetry, And If You Do, You May Have A Pretty Good Play. We Know This Because We See Plays In Translation. Not Many People Speak Norwegian Or Danish Or Whatever Guys Like Ibsen Spoke, Or Russian - Yet We Understand Chekhov And The Others.

Art Is An Expression Of Joy And Awe. It Is Not An Attempt To Share One's Virtues And Accomplishments With The Audience, But An Act Of Selfless Spirit.