Oh gosh, well, you know, growing up in the '70s being a young boy there, you know, there were still exploitation movies, where, you know, were, you k….

Although adults have a role to play in teaching social skills to children, it is often best that they play it unobtrusively. In particular, adults mu….

I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays..

For every different role you play it's nice to have different challenges for each one..

As we have more women in power, so the plays and the TV dramas are reflecting what's happening..

Friends serve central functions for children that parents do not, and they play a critical role in shaping children's social skills and their sense o….

Character halts without aid of the imagination, which our classes in Shakespeare and Browning, music and drawing, recognize not only as amusement and….

It is a real piece of art if you can make a waltz sound like it is the easiest piece of music to play, because it's really not..

My downtime tends to resemble my uptime. Weekends are workdays, but toned down. Over the whole weekend, I may have five meetings, as opposed to six o….

Lee Roy was the best college linebacker - bar none. He would have made every tackle on every play if they had stayed in bounds..

Of late, attempts have been made in the USA - at a high level and in a rather cynical form - to play the "Chinese card" against the USSR. This is a s….

What I try to do is produce an atmosphere where musicians want to invest in what they do and give to the recording. I hire those musicians who I know….

It sometimes looks as though woman would not be woman unless man insisted upon it, since she tends so markedly to be just a human being when away fro….

Once I can focus in on something, I just play it in my mind until an idea comes from out of nowhere, and it's usually the key to the whole song. It's….

Something as important and central and encompassing as empathy can't be all bad. I think empathy plays a role in intimate relationships, where you mi….

When I was a kid, I wanted to be an actor. I was acting in all the school plays. I went to school for acting. I was really sure that that's what I wa….

Female ambition is such a complicated thing to play because it is an aggressive quality, and people respond very badly to women exhibiting any kind o….

I think I've learned a lot about how to make movies, and particularly about how to edit movies by thinking about how similar problems are resolved in….

That's one of those hazards of an interview: You get tired of your stock answer and you try to get creative and even play devil's advocate..

I love actresses who are brave and don't do what's expected of them or don't play off how they look or take risks..

We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us..