All of my pleasures are guilty, but that's just the way I'm wired.

I see writing and acting as different parts of the same continuum. Writing is better for intense emotion. If you're very angry about something, you shouldn't present it as strongly when you're acting. But if you're really angry and writing about it, that's the best way to get it out and across.

Nothing is harder than working with an actor who doesn't take it seriously or show up in the same way that you are.

I write plays instinctively. I don't like writing movie scripts.

In acting class, you're trained to express yourself as much as you can.

Poor people are gross and they 'smell bad

There are some indications of how the character should behave based on the script, and then as actor makes it his or her own. I got to know one of the writers, Chris Terrio, and we were able to discuss things at length and figure out who this person is to create a real psychology behind what is, perhaps, in a comic book, a less than totally modern psychology. I can only say I've been asked to play an interesting role. A complicated, challenging person.