I mean when the play was on in New York I was starting to get film offers coming through, and since the film's come out I get offered more than I use….

I love everything about you that hurts..

Alice: It's the only way to leave. "I don't love you anymore. Goodbye." Dan: Supposing you do still love them? Alice: You don't leave..

Lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off. But it's better if you do..

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 ….

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 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….

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...….

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

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….

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

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

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….

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

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

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….

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

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

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

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 ….