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.

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

I was just restless with being in school; so I went out to Los Angeles.

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.

The most glorious thing about working in the collaborative art is when you have somebody like Susan Kingsley or Kathy Bates who are better than your play.

Somehow I got to be one of five or six actors that the directors would use as guinea pigs at this directing colloquium, where people pay to listen to and watch the directors direct.

Plays are so much more special if they've never ever had a production, but I think you can really work on a play and make it better with each production.