In Real Life, Every Person Is The

When I Was A Child, I Did Always Feel That People Were Hiding Things, And That They Weren't Expressing Their True Feelings. When Adults Are Too Complicated, And Cover Their Emotions With Layers Of Well-intentioned Subterfuge, The Child Isn't Seeing Reality Clearly Enough And Gets Upset.

I Choose Parts Because I Don't Want To Be Embarrassed When The Movie Comes Out. What If My Friends Were To See The Movie? What If My Niece Or Nephew Wandered Into The Theater And Saw The Movie? I Don't Want To Be Too Ashamed Of It.

I Know That I Am One And I've Made A Living As An Actor And I Enjoy Being An Actor, But When I'm Not Actually Doing It, I Forget That I Do It.

You're Always Fighting The Contradiction Between The Supposed Intimacy Of A Two-person Conversation And The Blunt Reality That You're Trying To Sell The Play To People Who Are Sitting Maybe Too Far Away From You.

I Grew Up In A Very Polite Family, And I Suppose My Parents Were Both Very Polite, And From The Time I Was A Young Boy, I Suspected That There Were Passions Seething Underneath And Not Being Mentioned, And That Was Something That Came To Preoccupy Me. Somehow I Had Some Drive To Write Down What People Might Really Be Thinking.