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.
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 think theater ought to be theatrical.
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.