I'm Very Interested In Silence. And, More

I'm Very Interested In Silence. And, More Importantly, In What Happens When People Aren't Talking On Stage. I'm Interested In Letting Actors Play And Do Things Between The Lines. And In Slowing Everything Down.

I Feel With Writing, So Much Of The Time, I Don't Know How To Tap In And Be Spontaneous And Alive On A Daily Basis. So I Don't Write Every Day. I'm Just Not Disciplined, And I Can't Be In The Groove Most Of The Time. I Feel Like I'm In The Groove Ten Days A Year Or Something. But With Reading And Research, I Feel Like I Have This Incredibly Instinctive Pleasure-driven Process That Ends Up Working Out For Me And Inspiring Me. It's Almost Like A Maze, Like I Know Eventually I'll Hit The Heart Of My Play If I Read Enough Books.

I Was 22 And Stopped Writing Plays, And I Didn't Start Again Until I Was 25. I Was Writing Badly. In College, I Attempted To Write These More Conventional Plays, But The Theater I Loved Was Downtown Experimental Theater. I Didn't Feel Like I Could Do That Either. It Didn't Occur To Me To Do My Own Thing.

I Don't Enjoy Hearing The Sound Of My Voice. The Most Important Things For Me Are Impossible To Articulate Extemporaneously.

I Never Had A Lot Of Ideas. I Always Have Exactly One That Is The Next Project; The Idea Of A Project Beyond That Project Is Ludicrous.