A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue.

I took myself completely out of it, ... But I think we'll be able to toast the deal with some very nice wine.

I've always been more comfortable sinking while clutching a good theory than swimming with an ugly fact.

A play is basically a long, formalistic polemic. You can write it without the poetry, and if you do, you may have a pretty good play. We know this because we see plays in translation. Not many people speak Norwegian or Danish or whatever guys like Ibsen spoke, or Russian - yet we understand Chekhov and the others.

Here's what happens in a play. You get involved in a situation where something is unbalanced. If nothing's unbalanced, there's no reason to have a play. If Hamlet comes home from school, and his dad's not dead and asks him if he's had a good time, it's boring. But if something's unbalanced, it must be returned to order.

They were extremely helpful, ... They helped with the dialogue and making the script as real as possible. It was a collaborative effort.