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

Every scene should be able to answer three questions: "Who wants what from whom? What happens if they don't get it? Why now?".

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 ….

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….

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

To find beauty in the sad, hope in the midst of loss, and dignity in failure is great poetic art..

The audience requires not information but drama..

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….

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….

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

It is the writer’s job to make the play interesting. It is the actor’s job to make the performance truthful..

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….

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

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

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

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

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

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 ….

Opportunity may knock, but it seldom nags..

Every fear hides a wish..