The legs are the wheels of creativity.
. . . don't rewrite unless you know what you're trying to do.
. . I have written a couple of screenplays for studios, and each time has been less gratifying than the last. In my experience, they want no real representations of homosexuality, they want no complexity, they are terrified of ambiguity and unanswered questions - they don't know what they want, except that they want to make lots of money. The only freedom I've ever had as an artist has been in the theatre.
Never to be squandered. . . . . the miracle of another human being.
THE DYING GAUL is a Hollywood satire. But Hollywood is not the real subject matter here. My play uses that world of high-rolling big money - that crazy-making business - to examine a whole range of subjects.
Successful weight loss takes programming, not willpower.
Ever since I began to compose, I have remained true to my starting principle: not to write a page because no matter what public, or what pretty girl wanted it to be thus or thus; but to write solely as I myself thought best, and as it gave me pleasure.
In America, we don't, in daily discourse, use the words 'capitalism' or 'socialism. ' They've been kind of nonexistent words, I would say, amongst the general public.
Because of our youthful population, we suffer from unemployment in Iran. We need more universities and more job opportunities for the young.