When I'm happiest writing is just not knowing where it goes and just let the characters bring you there.

My plays are always pushing towards cinema anyway. They're down and dirty, real and more fun.

I won't work on anyone's else's script. I won't write for anyone else. I write my own stuff and make that when the time is right.

I never feel like a smug or a smart-alec film director, and there are plenty of those around.

If you've got time to waste, you might as well waste it listening to people.

It doesn't feel like you're preaching, if you can say something in a joke.

I think as a writer you never have to flee from fame because you're not that visible in the first place, but, after the Broadway success of 'Beauty Queen,' people were coming up to me all the time, and I wasn't really prepared for that level of attention.