There's nothing regular about my life at all, really. I don't keep a regular schedule and every day is different. It's all rather chaotic.

You're always fighting the contradiction between the supposed intimacy of a two-person conversation and the blunt reality that you're trying to sell the play to people who are sitting maybe too far away from you.

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.

Who says one instance of writing has anything in common with another instance?

"The Fever" is a one-person play. I decided I would perform it myself, and I decided I would not perform it in theaters, because the character in the play says certain things that I meant.

After being in one movie, it didn't seem like that would be my life. I had done several jobs, briefly. I'd been a shipping clerk, I worked in a copy shop, I didn't think the acting was going to go on and on.

In terms of number of movies, I've been in an extraordinary amount. If you count only the minutes I'm onscreen, it's not so long.