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I Don't Like Losing The Words, As You Have To, When I'm Asked To Turn A Play Into A Movie. It's Not A Matter Of Ego . . . I'm Just Better Able To Create The Character For An Audience Through Words Rather Than Through Actions.

I Go To See Plays All The Time, And Whenever I See Chekhov, I'm Amazed At How This Russian Play Strikes Home To Me Living 100 Years Later In New York City. I'm Drawn To Him Because Of His Way With Characters And Their Relationships With Each Other.

I Don't Like Dating Or Just Living With A Woman. I Like To Create A Relationship, A Marriage. And Almost All Of My Marriages Have Involved Children, So I'm Really A Family Man As Well.

You Get Attached To The Way You Write, And I'm Attached To Notebooks. That's Where I Really Write The Plays. Just Two Or Three Pages At A Time, Then I Transfer To The Typewriter And Rewrite While I Type.

People With Honorary Awards Are Looked Upon With Disfavor. Would You Let An Honorary Mechanic Fix Your Brand-new Mercedes?