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 that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama.

I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in nineteenth-cen…

Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.

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.

Drama is life with the dull bits left out.