I Have An Enormous Appetite To See

Acting Is Trying To Be Absolutely Truthful; To Get Audiences To Believe That You Are A Dean, When, Actually, Not Only Are You Not The Dean, But If You Walked Into The Building They'd Probably Throw You Out. That's Very Hard.

What I'm Really Involved In When I'm Writing Is Something That No One Ever Mentions When They See Any Play. Writing Is Like Trying To Make Gunpowder Out Of Chemicals. You Have These Words And Sentences And The Strange Meanings And Associations That Are Attached To The Words And Sentences, And You're Somehow Cooking These Things All Up So That They Suddenly Explode And Have A Powerful Effect. That's What Absorbs Me From Day To Day In Writing A Play.

You Know, I Haven't Written As Much As Most Other Writers. Certainly Maybe Those Who Keep A More Regular Schedule Accomplish More.

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 Sincerely Believe That If Bush And Cheney Recognized The Full Humanity Of Other People's Mothers Around The World, They Wouldn't Commit The Crimes They Commit.