"I was reading through endless junk scripts that were being sent my way. Typically the roles were to play his wife or his girlfriend - leading roles for women were few and far between"

"Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent"

"Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked"

"Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve"

"Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed"

"Women are responsible for creating their own roles"

"The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast"

"The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground"

"Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city"

"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his"

"With foxes we must play the fox"