I love to work, although sometimes I can spend whole days doing nothing more than picking the lint off the carpet and talking to my mother on the phone.

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

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.

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.

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

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.