Old Age And Treachery Will

My Tendency As An Actor Was To Correct People, Was To Say, 'what If We Tried It This Way, What About If We Tried That Way?' That's Terrible Habit For An Actor, But That's A Good Habit For Director. So I Became A Director.

A Stage Play Is Basically A Form Of Uber-schizophrenia. You Split Yourself Into Two Minds - One Being The Protagonist And The Other Being The Antagonist. The Playwright Also Splits Himself Into Two Other Minds: The Mind Of The Writer And The Mind Of The Audience.

Get Into The Scene Late; Get Out Of The Scene Early.

Writing A Novel Is An Incredibly Free Experience. One Puts One's Self In A Narrative Mode. You Can Go Off In Any Direction - The Past, The Future, Or Go Laterally, Or Include One's Own Beliefs. It's Total Freedom.

I've Been Alienating My Public Since I Was 20 Years Old. When 'american Buffalo' Came Out On Broadway, People Would Storm Out And Say, 'how Dare He Use That Kind Of Language!' Of Course I'm Alienating The Public! That's What They Pay Me For.