But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright.

I'm very into the first production of the show.

In movement class, you had to lie on the floor and get your alignment in to pass the class.

It's really interesting that whenever you do something that is so out of character, like having an emotional outburst, that you don't get in trouble.

I tried to start a theatre in LA and failed miserably, but I was probably not meant to raise money.

That was always my inclination, to start on a new play before the other one gets done, because at least you'll have something to go back to if that play gets trashed.

That's what I like about [smoking] . . . taking a drag off of death, Mmm! Gives me a sense of controlling my own destiny. What power! What exhilaration! Want a drag?