I'm being mocked because I don't live up to a socially determined view of what other people think a person should look like.

I don't have an idea for a play until after I've finished writing it. I write first, and come up with what it's about later. My technique could be compared to having a large canvas and coming in every day and putting a dot on it somewhere, and after several years - literally - I begin to say, That reminds me of an elephant, so I think I'll make it one.

But because we've all been readers, we know what the experience is like, and we hope that what certain writers have given to us, we will give to someone.

I have an enormous appetite to see life as I know it presented in front of my eyes.

I think I'm trying to write truthfully about life, and naturalism, or the way people normally talk in movies, is a convention. It's not the way people talk in life at all.

I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.

If I had even the tiniest scrap of advice to give to a young actor who was figuring out how to audition, I would say don't memorize the script The reality about auditions is that 98 percent of the results has to do with what you are, not with what you did in the audition.