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I Don't Like Losing The Words, As You Have To, When I'm Asked To Turn A Play Into A Movie. It's Not A Matter Of Ego . . . I'm Just Better Able To Create The Character For An Audience Through Words Rather Than Through Actions.

Rewriting Is When Writing Really Gets To Be Fun. . . . In Baseball You Only Get Three Swings And You're Out. In Rewriting, You Get Almost As Many Swings As You Want And You Know, Sooner Or Later, You'll Hit The Ball.

I Don't Like Dating Or Just Living With A Woman. I Like To Create A Relationship, A Marriage. And Almost All Of My Marriages Have Involved Children, So I'm Really A Family Man As Well.

There's No Such Thing As A Sure Thing. That's Why They Call It Gambling.

Everyone Thinks They Can Write A Play; You Just Write Down What Happened To You. But The Art Of It Is Drawing From All The Moments Of Your Life.