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I Was A Very Self-righteous 15-25 Year Old. Anyway, I Wake Up Every Morning And Thank God I'm Not A Kid Anymore.

I Feel Like The Reason I Ended Up Becoming A Playwright Is Because I Never Choose The Right Word. As A Kid, My Fantasy Profession Was To Be A Novelist. But The Thing About Writing Prose - And Maybe Great Prose Writers Don't Feel This Way - But I Always Felt It Was About Choosing Words. I Was Always Like, "i Have To Choose The Perfect Word." And Then It Would Kill Me, And I Would Choose The Wrong Word Or I Would Choose Too Many Perfect Words - I Wrote Really Purple Prose.

For Early Plays Of Mine, I Started With Character. But I Think That's Because I Hadn't Been In Theaters; I Hadn't Worked That Much. I'm Very Interested In Character, Obviously, But Once I Started Having My Plays Produced, I Became So Fascinated By The Theatrical Experiment And The Weirdness Of Theatrical Space, So Now All My Plays Start With Space And Stage Picture And Setting - Or Container Is Maybe The Better Way To Put It.

There Are Certain Early Plays Of Mine That I Really Don't Like, But I Can't Imagine Going Back And Fixing Them. I Would Be Totally Incapable Of It. I'm Not In The Head Of The Characters Anymore.

I Feel Like My Life Is At Its Happiest When I Don't Have A Looming Deadline. There's Some Really Groovy Wonderful Times, When I'm Like, "i Have A New Piece, I'm Excited About It, I'm Reading All These Books About It, But There's Not A Lot Of Time Pressure, And I'm Financially Stable Enough Right Now That I Don't Have To Be Trying To Get Another Job." But That's So Rare.