It's very common for people to recommend something to me because they're going on what I've already written, when, what really is the case, is that you want to write about something you haven't written about, in ways that you haven't done before.
It's really hard to talk about writing, and I'm usually conscious if I'm misleading people or misleading the questioner, because the problem with writing is the next line.
If you let the plot be determined by what you feel is in the character's mind at that point, it may not turn out to be a very good play, but at least it will be a play where people are behaving in a kind of truthful way.
If you are well known at something else, you get points for doing stuff which lots of other people do, and much more, and they don't get any points at all. You get over-praised, over-credited.
The thing that happens remarkably often is that the people who are writing a dissertation believe they need to speak to me in order to do their dissertation. They need to interview me.
Chekhov understood that people are mysterious and can't be reduced to what we nowadays call 'motivation.'
People have quite a simple idea about 'Anna Karenina.' They feel that the novel is entirely about a young married woman who falls in love with a cavalry officer and leaves her husband after much agony, and pays the price for that.
I've seldom minded other people's opinions, but the other side of that coin is that I've seldom been interested by them, um their opinions about me I mean.
You can't treat royalty like people with normal perverted desires.
Player: Relax. Respond. That's what people do. You can't go through life question your sitution at every turn.
The universe is deterministic all right, just like Newton said, I mean it's trying to be, but the only thing going wrong is people fancying people who aren't supposed to be in that part of the plan.
I will take his secret to the grave, telling people I meet on the way.
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.
The tragedy of journalism is that these are people doing their best work.
People think there's a choice between smoking and immortality, but we've all got to die of something.
I've got no interest in educating or instructing people.
The fact is that people are attracted to new work and by new work.
The whole philosophy of modern times is to dissolve distinctions between individuals and deal with them as large collections of people. It's essentially self-interested on the part of authority.
We're actors. We're the opposite of people.
Left to themselves people are noble, generous, uncorrupted, they'd create a completely new kind of society if only people weren't so blind, stupid and selfish.
If you took away everything in the world that had to be invented, there'd be nothing left except a lot of people getting rained on.
The truth is, we value your company, for want of any other. We have been left so much to our own devices—after a while one welcomes the uncertainty of being left to other people's.
I like plays where people talk a lot. Conversation is sustained. Argument is sustained.
In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed dramaticness.
People think I'm very nice, you know. And I'm not as nice as they think.