I think a tragedy is something where the natural order of things is completely interrupted and doesn't right itself..

When I look back I can't believe I was so stupid as to direct Dealer's Choice..

What's so great about the truth? Try lying for a change, it's the currency of the world..

Thank God life ends—we'd never survive it. From Big Bang to weary shag, the history of the world. Our flesh is ferocious...our bodies will kill us...….

Always when I directed the play, I was always trying to cast people not who were necessarily like the characters, but people who I felt had the essen….

I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I started reading novels. I'll defend it to the ….

Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level..

I'm constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency..

I like the varying rhythm of being a writer that you have a period of being in complete isolation where it's just you and the book and your screenpla….

Alice: I don’t love you anymore. Goodbye. Dan: Since when? Alice: Now. Just now..

I don't love you anymore. Goodbye..

When you're in your early 20s your love life seems to explode every 20 minutes or so. By the time you've reached your thirties, it is every five or t….

I'm a happily married man and I think to get married you have to be optimistic..

It's one of the reasons I don't do drugs. One sniff and I'd go all the way..

I think you owe me something for deceiving me so exquisitely..

I like them all - I don't always approve. I see myself as a sort of benevolent uncle to these characters, and I can see why they do what they do; som….

The trite answer is that everything is true but none of it happened. It is emotionally true, but the events, the plotting, the narrative, isn't true ….

We arrive with our...'baggage' and for a while they're brilliant, they're 'Baggage Handlers.' We say, 'Where's your baggage?' They deny all knowledge….

I'm a Golden Globe nominee, yes. It's very nice. It's a very nice thing, but I kind of think of all the awards I wasn't ever nominated for, for years….

That's the most stupid expression in the world. 'I fell in love'—as if you had no choice. There's a moment, there's always a moment; I can do this, I….

A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse..