Getting Out Of Bed In The Morning

I Found It Was My Good Fortune To Somehow Be Able To Work In These Forms That I Loved When I Was A Kid. I Love Movies And I Could Write Screenplays. I Love Theater And I Could Write Plays. I Mean, They Would Be My Own, I Could Never Write What Was Used To Be Called The Well-made Play. But My First Play, "little Murders," Turned Out To Be A Great Success And A Great Influence On Plays At That Time.

I Was Never Interested In The Two-party System Per Se. I Was Interested In How Authority Was Abused By Government, And How Lies Were Told, And Rewritten, To Seem To Be True. I Came Up Out Of A Tradition Of Radical Journalism.

Getting Out Of Bed In The Morning Is An Act Of False Confidence.

I've Had Enormous Luck And Enormous Pleasure In Working In Such Forms As Movies And Plays That I Loved When I Was A Kid And I Just - Because I Could Always Write Dialogue, Because I Always Had A Sense Of How People Spoke. And Because I Had A Strong Narrative Sense; Growing Up And Loving Stories, Loving Novels, I Just Seem To Know How To Tell A Story And I Read A Lot, I Went To A Lot Of Movies, I Went To A Lot Of Plays, And It Rubbed Off On Me. And That's All. It Just Rubbed Off On Me.

I Learned To Distrust Writers Who Talked About How They Squeezed The Blood Onto The Typewriter. They Just Don't Want You To Know How Much Fun They Have - You'll Resent It.