Acting Is An Escape From The Boring

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.

My Style As A Human Being Is To Indulge People Who Need To Escape, Yet I Insist On Confronting Them As A Playwright. It's Quite Embarrassing, It's Quite Unpleasant, It's Quite Awkward.

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 Was Making My Living From A Joke About My Appearance That I Didn't Understand, And In A Way Still Don't, Because When I Look In A Mirror It Doesn't Seem Funny To Me.

I'm Trying To Write Truthfully About Life, And Naturalism, Or The Way People Normally Talk In Movies, Is A Convention. The Way I Write Is About Life And Is Quite Truthful, And There Is A Kind Of Brutal Side To The Relationship, And To The Feelings, That Makes It Somewhat Painful, But I Think It's A Very Intense Portrait Of The Relationship Of Two People. And A Bit About What People Feel Like When They're Alone, Because It All Takes Place In One Day, And During The Day, They Spend A Lot Of Time Alone In Their Different - You Get To Imagine What Their Fantasy Lives Are Like.