I Think I'm Trying To Write Truthfully

I Started Writing Plays In Around 1967, And At A Certain Point, I Thought, 'i'm Writing Plays, I Should Learn About Acting And What It Is.' So I Went To The Hb Studio In New York, And I Was There For About Nine Months.

I Think I'm Trying To Write Truthfully About Life, And Naturalism, Or The Way People Normally Talk In Movies, Is A Convention. It's Not The Way People Talk In Life At All.

The Life Of An Actor Can Be Very Enviable.

I See Myself As A Citizen Of The Planet. Even As A Child, I Always Found It Mindless To Root For Your Own Team. I Was Puzzled By The Fact That People Said Their Own Team Was Better Than Other Teams Simply Because It Was Theirs.

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.