” Frankly, seeing my plays with an audience is something I do with gritted teeth, I find the experience very difficult. I love the moment when you have just the dress rehearsal, when no one’s there, that’s kind of the peak to me. When people start filing in, I like to file out. “
” You do think, if you have your druthers, ‘I want to sort of be, not anonymous, but unknown’. But you don’t have your druthers in life, do you? “
” My mother wanted me to be a writer. But she was a child of the Depression and never understood that she wasn’t poor. So, you know, the idea of not having a job, it would creep through. But she tried very hard to be subtle about it. “
” It seems that the hurdle you have to jump over is everyone’s informed opinion. When you’re a young playwright, you’re probably too precarious in your own technique to understand that when these seemingly informed opinions are contradicting each other, it becomes this paralyzing monolith. “
” When you’re writing plays, it’s possible to believe you don’t have any real world skill. When you’re adapting, it is really all about the mechanics, so you feel closer to, I don’t know, an accountant or someone who has a body of information. It’s not all about temperament. “
” People talk about alienation in the city. Diners are a place where you feel comfortable, an extension of your house. “
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