Everybody has the ability to be manipulative, to be hateful and deceitful..

We live in a disposable society. It's easier to throw things out than to fix them. We even give it a name - we call it recycling..

It's funny how that comes up, because sometimes I'll write something and I'll think, I don't know if that's a film or a play, and then other things I….

The future is now. It's time to grow up and be strong. Tomorrow may well be too late..

But for me, it feels like a natural extension of what I've been doing: exploring relationships. Here you have two relationships and we can explore ho….

Sitting in an automobile was where I first remember understanding how drama works ... Hidden in the back seat of a sedan, I quickly realized how deep….

I felt, if I'm going to take on some of the most overdone material, which is men and women and affairs and betrayal of friends, I had better have a n….

Everyone has a story..

I was very careful to cast guys who were very good-looking and very fit and who had a certain sense of privilege about them, because with that sense ….

In a relationship you have to open yourself up..

We humans are a fairly barbarous bunch..

There were certain things that I watched, and I screened a series of period films as well, not because I wanted to copy those, because I wanted to be….

Movies are - all I've found is that they're just tougher and tougher to make..

I think the more the actor lets you know what he thinks of the character, the less the audience cares - like a comedian who laughs at his own jokes..

Relationships in general make people a bit nervous. It's about trust. Do I trust you enough to go there?.

People think my work is therapeutic. I don't see it that way. It's not like I'm saving money from a weekly therapy visit by writing down my life..

I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction..

I wanted to tell a story that interested me as much in the telling as in the watching..

Without In The Company of Men, I could still be teaching, so who knows if this would've existed..

I was always looking for the most dramatic emphasis. One example would be the letter writing, or the reading of the letters. If you remember from the….

And I've got some screenplays and plays ready to dip into when I need to..