I love writing for the screen.

My first few plays took place in the South and even The Lucky Spot was in the thirties but in Louisiana.

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.

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.

Some really good things kind of swing both ways and I like to see people that can swing really, really, really sad and horrible and terrible and really, really, really beautiful and funny.

It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright.

The impetus behind going to graduate school was a year after graduating from college spent in Dallas working at the dog food factory and Bank America and not having met success in my chosen field, which at that point was being an actress.