All your life, you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye. And when something nudges it into outline, it is like being ambushed by a grotesque.

One feels that the past stays the way you left it, whereas the present is in constant movement; it's unstable all around you.

I was so thrilled being a reporter, because it gave you the kind of access to people that you wouldn't ever get to meet.

Schepisi is the sort of director who could, would, and frequently did phone me whenever he came across a textual problem.

I like plays where people talk a lot. Conversation is sustained. Argument is sustained.