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.

What I loved about the acting class was that you got to think all day long about a person that wasn't you, and figure out why they were sad and what they wanted, what they dreamed.

And all writing is creating or spinning dreams for other people so they won't have to bother doing it themselves.

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

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 did write a couple of original screenplays, but I'd rather write plays.

Part of that is that New York has proved to be too much fun for me to live and work; I love New York so much.