I Fell Into Writing Plays By Accident.

I Think The Novel Is The American Form Because People Read It In Private, And The Only Valuable Things That Happen In America Happen In Private Life, Because Public Life Is A Dead Loss.

My Father Always Said 'there's No Free Lunch.' My Father Was Right. There's No Free Lunch And There's No Free Market. The Market Is Rigged, The Market Is Always Rigged, And The Rigging Is In Favour Of The People Who Run The Market. That's What The Market Is. It's A Bent Casino. The House Always Wins.

The Most Important Playwright's Gift Is To Hit Your Time And Speak To Your Time.

When You Get Older, Then You Feel Death Not At The End Of The Road, But Death All Around You, In Everything. Life Is Saturated With Death. I Feel Death Everywhere.

. . . It Is True That Language And Forward Movement In The Cinema Are Jolly Hard To Reconcile. It's A Very, Very, Difficult Thing To Do. . . . There Is Still A Place In The Cinema For Movies That Are Driven By The Human Face, And Not By Explosions And Cars And Guns And Action Sequences . . . There's Such A Thing As Action And Speed Within Thought Rather Than Within A Ceaseless Milkshake Of Images.