Playwright Quotes

After the falling out with my father, I worked on a couple of ranches - thoroughbred layup farms, actually - out toward Chino, California. That was fine for a little while, but I wanted to get out completely, and twenty miles away wasn't far enough.
All good writing comes out of aloneness.
All of the great writers whom I admire have died. I guess the most recent one would be Marquez.
Careers don't interest me. The only thing that interests me is continuing to be a poet on one level or another, whether acting or writing or directing.
Dialogue is like jazz. Dialogue is creative.
Directing feels great; I'm really happy to be doing this.
Film is anti-language.
For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don't have these essentials, you might as well be writing a theoretical essay, not a play.
Grief is bizarre territory because there's no predicting how long it'll take to get over certain things. You just don't know how long it's going to resound in your life.
Guys like Clyde McPhatter used to sing their tail ends off!
Hats look exactly the same. There's no difference between The Writing Hat and The Acting Hat.
Hollywood is geared toward teenage idiocy.
I always thought the desert was the antithesis of peace - something that attacks you. So you don't go to the desert for peace.
I am always relaxed.
I basically live out of my truck - I mean from place to place. I feel more at home in my truck than just about anywhere, which is a sad thing to say, but it's true.
I don't attend costume parties.
I don't believe in a lot of schmoozing and buttering up. Not that you don't become friends in work. But I think it's a misconception that you have to do a lot of hanging before you work.
I don't belong much anywhere.
I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.
I feel like I'm a natural-born playwright, but the prose thing has always mystified me. How to keep it going? How do people do it, for years and years?
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