I Have Been Vain Since Birth.

I'm Being Mocked Because I Don't Live Up To A Socially Determined View Of What Other People Think A Person Should Look Like.

Children, I Always Think, Are Just Putting On A Performance Of Being Naive And Not Understanding Anything. I Have Worked With Children In Films, And They're Treated As Adults And They Just Drop The Pretense Of Being Children.

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.

All Of My Plays Have Puzzled Some People, And I'm Happy To Say Delighted A Few, But A Lot Of People Have Just Not Seen How Quite To Look At Them. And This Film... If You Like My Writing, You'll Like This Film. If You Don't, You Won't Like The Film. It's Pretty Faithful To - It's A Pretty Uncompromising Presentation Of My Way Of Seeing Things, I Suppose.

Acting Is Trying To Be Absolutely Truthful; To Get Audiences To Believe That You Are A Dean, When, Actually, Not Only Are You Not The Dean, But If You Walked Into The Building They'd Probably Throw You Out. That's Very Hard.