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" I am as miserable as anyone - sometimes. "

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" That I have the right to express myself freely at all times in all circumstances entails the idea that free speech is a 'basic human right' possessed by each individual, and, as such, trumps the interests of the society or group, including my neighbour. "

" From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked. "

" When I was younger, I could do something useful just by being free for half a day, but now I need five days to get the world I've left out of my head and ten days or a fortnight not talking to anyone to hold what I need to hold inside my head. "

" I don't draw on my inner life in my work. "

" I don't believe there is something called 'film' and something called 'theater,' and that words belong in the theater. Some rather bad films have few words in them; some good films have a lot of words in them. "

" You don't often get a proposal to do Tolstoy for a really interesting director - that's easy to say yes to. "

" Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want. "

" I have two garden parties a year to avoid going out to dinner. "

" Hotel rooms inhabit a separate moral universe. "

" I think I enlist comedy to a serious purpose. "

" I think I give the impression of being a romantic, and I think inside I'm quite severe. But some might say they had the opposite impression of me. "

" I think theater ought to be theatrical. "

" Embarrassingly enough, I often can't remember how I came to write something. "

" The days of the digital watch are numbered. "

" I'm very garrulous, but I don't say anything. "

" My desk faces the water, and I'm perfectly happy sitting there. I'm never lonely. "

" I like the notion of theater as recreational. "

" One always likes to think that other countries are not like one's own. "

" You end up going to school plays quite a bit as a parent, there are a lot of kids who are doing the job as well as they can, but there's always one or two who seem much more at home in the world of impersonation. "

" A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors. "

" Well I believe in the desirability of an optimal society. "

" I don't know that I want to share all my most intimate secrets. "

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

" Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power. "

" Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them. "

Responsibilities

" I think probably I've been influenced by Chekhov and Walt Disney, if you see what I mean. "

" I write out of my intellectual experience. "