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

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.

It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright.

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 love writing for the screen.

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.

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.