I'm Being Mocked Because I Don't Live

What I'm Really Involved In When I'm Writing Is Something That No One Ever Mentions When They See Any Play. Writing Is Like Trying To Make Gunpowder Out Of Chemicals. You Have These Words And Sentences And The Strange Meanings And Associations That Are Attached To The Words And Sentences, And You're Somehow Cooking These Things All Up So That They Suddenly Explode And Have A Powerful Effect. That's What Absorbs Me From Day To Day In Writing A Play.

Acting Is An Escape From The Boring Person That I Am In Real Life.

I Grew Up. I Began To Think The United States Had Some Problems That Really Required The Help Of Artistic People To Solve. And I Gave Myself Permission To Be A Writer Instead Of A Civil Servant.

We Are Not What We Seem. We Are More Than What We Seem. The Actor Knows That. And Because The Actor Knows That Hidden Inside Himself There's A Wizard And A King, He Also Knows That When He's Playing Himself In His Daily Life, He's Playing A Part, He's Performing, Just As He's Performing When He Plays A Part On Stage.

We're In An Emergency Situation. The United States Has Become An Absolutely Terrifying Country, And I Would Hope That I Could Participate In Some Way In Stopping The Horror And The Brutality.