I was just restless with being in school; so I went out to Los Angeles.
I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays.
There are probably brilliant people, geniuses, alive today who don't even know how to say, "Hello, how do you do?" because their minds are absorbed with electronic images.
I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I'd rather write plays.
I'm very into the first production of the show.
My first few plays took place in the South and even The Lucky Spot was in the thirties but in Louisiana.