I'm Not Good At Standing On Platforms

Writers Always Sound Insufferably Smug When They Sit Back And Assert That Their Job Is Only To Ask Questions And Not To Answer Them. But, In Good Part, It Is True. And Once You Become Committed To One Particular Answer, Your Freedom To Ask New Questions Is Seriously Impaired.

. . . It Is True That Language And Forward Movement In The Cinema Are Jolly Hard To Reconcile. It's A Very, Very, Difficult Thing To Do. . . . There Is Still A Place In The Cinema For Movies That Are Driven By The Human Face, And Not By Explosions And Cars And Guns And Action Sequences . . . There's Such A Thing As Action And Speed Within Thought Rather Than Within A Ceaseless Milkshake Of Images.

Sudden Resolutions, Like The Sudden Rise Of Mercury In A Barometer, Indicate Little Else Than The Variability Of The Weather.

I Fell Into Writing Plays By Accident. But The Reason I Write Plays Is That It's The Only Thing I'm Any Good At.

In Oratory The Will Must Predominate.