In The Modern Era, It Isn't Enough

I'm Happy That I Feel A Little Less Out Of Place In Filmmaking Than I Once Was - But It's Almost Impossible For A Playwright In The U.s. To Make A Living. You Can Have A Play, Like I Did With 'angels,' And It Still Generates Income For Me, But It's Not Enough For Me To Live On And Have Health Insurance.

The White Cracker Who Wrote The National Anthem Knew What He Was Doing. He Set The Word "free" To A Note So High Nobody Could Reach It. That Was Deliberate.

Trying Every Day To Tell The Truth Is Hard. There Are Harder Things, Of Course - Arguably, Living With Lies And Meaninglessness, Living In Despair Is Harder, But It's Hardship Disguised As Luxury And Easier Perhaps To Grow Accustomed To, Since Truth Is Usually The Enemy Of Custom. There Are Harder Things Than Writing, Being President Obama, For Instance, And Having To Deal With House Republicans, Or Trying To Fix The Leak At The Fukushima Reactor, These Are Harder, But Writing Is Hard.

The Theater Requires An Essential Gullibility That You Can't Get Through Life Without Having. If All You Can Feel Is Skepticism-well , You Meet People Like This. Run Away From Them. They're Not Good People.

I've Never Seen A Great Actor Do A Major Role That Didn't Cost A Lot. They're Sacrificial Animals Of A Sort.