You listen to the audience. The audience is wrong individually and always right collectively. If they don't laugh, it isn't funny. If they cough, it …

- Peter Stone

Disease, a simple famine, plagues of locusts everywhere, or a cataclysmic earthquake, I'd accept with some despair, but no, you sent us Congress! Goo…

- Peter Stone

I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace, that two are called a law firm, and that three or more become a congress.

- Peter Stone

For writers that rehearsal period is death. It is the most destructive thing of all to a script.

- Peter Stone

Hollywood is a cottage industry involving a very small number of people, and around the edges are enormous numbers of people trying to get into it an…

- Peter Stone

When talking about unicorns, minotaurs, or compassionate conservatives, one does not normally have to prove their non-existence; the mere lack of any…

- Peter Stone

At early previews, the theater gossips are there, wishing you ill every night. They don't grant you any slack. Agents are in from Hollywood. Your fri…

- Peter Stone

The rehearsal period is so far away from the time when the scene will actually be shot that very little is remembered.

- Peter Stone

The relationship between an actress and her director is often a very close one.

- Peter Stone