From Being A Writer Of Plays, It

My Father Was A Jazz Listener, And I Think, At Least Before I Was 5, I Was Not So Into That. Although There Were Records That Emphasized Percussion That I Liked, Like Baby Dodds.

When I Was First Exposed To The Films Of Ingmar Bergman, I Found Them Frank And Disturbing Portraits Of The World We Live In, But That Was Not Something That Displeased Me. They Were Beautiful. I Thought People Would Respond To My Plays The Way I Responded To Bergman's Films.

I Grew Up In A Very Polite Family, And I Suppose My Parents Were Both Very Polite, And From The Time I Was A Young Boy, I Suspected That There Were Passions Seething Underneath And Not Being Mentioned, And That Was Something That Came To Preoccupy Me. Somehow I Had Some Drive To Write Down What People Might Really Be Thinking.

I Choose Parts Because I Don't Want To Be Embarrassed When The Movie Comes Out. What If My Friends Were To See The Movie? What If My Niece Or Nephew Wandered Into The Theater And Saw The Movie? I Don't Want To Be Too Ashamed Of It.

I'm A Very Lucky Man. It's A Beautiful Thing For A Writer, To See People Allowing Your Words To Enter Their Own Unconscious And Their Souls.