I have a musical called Goodbye and Good Luck based on a Grace Paley short story. I also have King Island Christmas and there are 20 different productions of it this year.

Women love to be called cruel even when they are kindest.

While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial gossip among men especially if it is about women is called theory or idea or fact.

To a philosopher all news as it is called is gossip and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

Women have been called queens for a long time but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.

This society in which we live is radically changing. What previous generations saw as evil is now embraced as being good. It is a dangerous and slippery slope upon which we stand when we reject what Solomon called the beginning of wisdom - the fear of God.

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

I just wrapped this movie called The Wedding Crashers which was a pretty big break for me.

One side-effect of the so-called war on terror has been a crisis of liberalism. This is not only a question of alarmingly illiberal legislation but a more general problem of how the liberal state deals with its anti-liberal enemies.

I made a French film called 'Merry Christmas' which is a very European film. It's a World War I piece.