Every fear hides a wish..

You get rich through luck. You get rich through crime. You get rich through fulfilling the needs of another. You can be as greedy as you like. If you….

People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they want..

A good writer gets better only by learning to cut, to remove the ornamental, the descriptive, the narrative, and especially the deeply felt and meani….

Being a writer in Hollywood is like going to Hitler's Eagle Nest with a great idea for a bar mitzvah..

When the three branches of government have failed to represent the citizenry and the mass of the media has failed to represent the citizenry, then th….

Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rec….

Characters on stage, like people in what we refer to as "real life," do not speak to reveal themselves. They do not speak to conceal themselves. They….

One person may need (or want) more leisure, another more work; one more adventure, another more security, and so on. It is this diversity that makes ….

There is no such thing as character other than the habitual action, as Mr. Aristotle told us two thousand years ago..

Opportunity may knock, but it seldom nags..

When you come into the theatre, you have to be willing to say, 'We're all here to undergo a communion, to find out what the hell is going on in this ….

The main question in drama, the way I was taught, is always, 'What does the protagonist want?' That's what drama is. It comes down to that. It's not ….

We all die in the end, but there's no reason to die in the middle..

You know, young actors say all the time, 'Should I use my own life experience?' And my response is, 'What choice do you have?'.

The audience requires not information but drama..

Worry is interest paid in advance on a debt that never comes due..

Forget narrative, backstory, characterisation, exposition, all of that. Just make the audience want to know what happens next..

Luck, if there is such a thing, is either going to favor everyone equally or going to exhibit a preference for the prepared..

Like Lincoln said: "If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong," and I feel the same way about the leftist dismantling of the West. If that's not wron….

Encounter: Doubt, Shame, Humiliation. It will finally be worth it. Acting is more about courage than anything else..