Time wounds all heals..

I'm aware that a film is different than a play, and that a film isn't going to be the filmed record of the play. It's its own separate entity, and I'….

In theater, the playwright is the boss, period. The decisions will go through him or her. In movies, the writer is pretty far down on the list..

I'm kind of perverse in that I think pessimism is helpful. My pessimism is my own kind of patriotism. My dissent..

Thank God we can't tell the future. We'd never get out of bed..

All women need makeup. Don't let anybody tell you different. The only woman who was pretty enough to go without makeup was Elizabeth Taylor and she w….

If you're not entertaining, what the hell's the point?.

Women are beautiful when they're young, and not after. Men can still preserve their sex appeal well into old age.... Some men can maintain, if they e….

You get to know a character that you play on-stage in a pretty profound way over a length of time. I don't want to sound highfalutin and say you beco….

I never know what the hell I'm writing about, I never know what the next thing I'm writing about is, I never have a plan..

We're all just people, some of us accidentally connected by genetics, a random selection of cells. Nothing more..

A certain giving up of control is good for the soul..

The window shades have all been removed. Nighttime is now free to encroach..

I like Shakespeare, but I never know what the hell is going on..

I don't think I'd give advice. That never pays off. That's always a bad idea. If they follow your advice and it doesn't work out, or if they don't fo….

I don't know what it says about me that I have a greater affinity with the damaged. Probably nothing good..

After the success of 'August,' there were people saying I should change my life. And maybe I should have bought a yacht and traveled the world instea….

Sometimes my family thinks I've made my childhood a bit more Dickensian than it was, and it probably wasn't all that bad. But I was uncomfortable as ….

My last refuge, my books: simple pleasures, like finding wild onions by the side of a road, or requited love..

You know, people see [August: Osage County], and I tell them that it's based on my family, and they assume that I came from some kind of horrible, hy….

What they frequently want to do with a movie is, they want to cut out the valleys and just show the peaks. And valleys are important; the valleys mak….