You can't just go in there and open your mouth until the cast and director feel comfortable with you.

In movement class, you had to lie on the floor and get your alignment in to pass the class.

But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright.

That was always my inclination, to start on a new play before the other one gets done, because at least you'll have something to go back to if that play gets trashed.

The most glorious thing about working in the collaborative art is when you have somebody like Susan Kingsley or Kathy Bates who are better than your play.

If God gives you chocolate, you open your mouth, no?