George Pierce Baker

In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move logically enough to the ending.

When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases for itself, we reach dramatic literature.

Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else.

If I had to summarize, most broadly, my concerns as a writer, I'd say the question 'How then must we live?' is at the heart of it, for me.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.