I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.

And when I get bored, it's like the worst parts of me come out. I really veer to self-destructive tendencies quickly.

I always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did.

I think film writing, you're thinking in pictures, and stage writing, you're thinking in dialogue. In film writing, it's also, you only get so many words, so everything has to earn its place in a really economical way. I think for stage writing, you have more leeway.

In New York you can just walk out and be among people. You're on the subway among people, you go to cafes, you can talk to people.

My schedule is completely different doing a play than it is doing a movie, and I actually think it's a much harder schedule because you've got to do it eight times a week and you've got to do it good eight times a week and with different kinds of audiences who are cold or drunk or tired, whatever it is.