That's what I like about [smoking] . . . taking a drag off of death, Mmm! Gives me a sense of controlling my own destiny. What power! What exhilaration! Want a drag?

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.

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.

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.

I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I'd rather write plays.

I'm very into the first production of the show.

I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays.