The varying physical characteristics of the actors may also necessitate changes. Sean Connery is six feet four. Dustin Hoffman isn't.

All good work requires self-revelation.

In drama, the characters should determine the story. In melodrama, the story determines the characters.

A dream is a miracle turned inside out!

Mmm, freshly baked cookies. Even better, the rich, buttery scent had conquered the usual mothball odor.

If any writer thinks the world is full of middle class people of nice sensibilities, then he is out of his mind.

Sin defies God, utterly corrupts each individual, corrodes all social relationships, and issues in death.

First, Resolve upon, and daily endeavour to practise, a life of seriousness and strict sobriety.

I will say nothing to an actor that cannot be translated into action.

Earthquakes just happen. Tornadoes just happen. Your tongue does not just happen to fall into some other girl's mouth!

Break my heart. Break it a thousand times if you like. It was only ever yours to break anyway.

That which we call wit consists much in quickness and tricks, and is so full of lightness that it seldom goes with judgment and solidity; but when they do meet, it is commonly in an honest man.

As Bertrand Russell once wrote, two plus two is four even in the interior of the sun.