The ever importunate murmur, 'Dramatize it, dramatize it!'

We are divided of course between liking to feel the past strange and liking to feel it familiar.

In art economy is always beauty.

The historian, essentially, wants more documents than he can really use; the dramatist only wants more liberties than he can really take.

Violence shouldn't be presented as drama. I think people looking for an easy way out often write scenes where characters come into violent conflict as opposed …

Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.

If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe t…