Playwright Quotes

I feel like the writers that I'm drawn to, the writers that I really cling to, are the writers who seem to be writing out of a desperate act. It's like their writing is part of a survival kit. Those are the writers that I just absolutely cherish and carry with me everywhere I go.
I feel very lucky and privileged to be a writer. I feel lucky in the sense that I can branch out into prose and tell different kinds of stories and stuff. But being a writer is so great because you're literally not dependent on anybody.
I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
I got to New York when I was eighteen. I was knocking around, trying to be an actor, writer, musician, whatever happened.
I guess what I like is mostly country & western or else stuff that has a real blues feel to it.
I had two experiences with very close friends of mine who experienced aphasia, the loss of language. It shocked me.
I have a cellphone, but I have no Google, I have no gaggle.
I keep endlessly busy with all kinds of stuff, mostly horses, cattle, livestock, things like that.
I keep my horses out in the open, but when I was working the ranches, I had to clean the stalls. It was a horrible job.
I know, as an actor, you have to negotiate, but I can't handle the whole idea that art and commerce are synonymous. It drives me nuts.
I love Levon Helm - he's one of my favorite guys.
I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?
I never thought about having a daughter, and then I had a daughter, and it was a remarkable thing. It was very different from having a son and your response to it. With a son, it's much more complex. And it's probably because of my stuff in the past. With a daughter, I was surprised at how simple it is.
I remember, as a kid, going into other people's houses. Everything was different. The smells in the kitchen were different; the clothing was different. That bothered me. There's something very mysterious about other families and the way they function.
I see a lot of scripts, and very few of them leap off the page at you.
I stay away from heavy-handed stuff, the good guy and the bad guy. It just doesn't interest me; all it does is create more fences between people, I think.
I still find it hard to believe that the whole era of jazz is over.
I think a part of the reason that those early plays were short was that I just kept having these ideas, and I'd just go off and write them. I wasn't trying to write one-act plays - it's just how the ideas would be expressed. Every condition I was in seemed like it could be a play.
I think Bolano had a generosity about him that was unique. He seemed to include so many people in the circle of his adventures, whereas I felt like I was pretty selfish.
I think comedy's harder to pull off on the screen than on the stage, anyway. Tragedy is easier on the screen... oddly enough.
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