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Film Acting Is Really The Trick Of Doing Moments. You Rarely Do A Take That Lasts More Than 20 Seconds. You Really Earn Your Spurs Acting Onstage. I Needed To Do That For Myself. I Would Hate To Say At The End Of Everything That I Never Did A Stage Play.

When I First Started, I Didn't Really Know How To Structure A Play. I Could Write Dialogue, But I Just Sort Of Failed Beyond That, And Kind Of Went Wherever I Wanted To Go.

I Was In The War. I Know How To Kill. I Was Over There. I Know How To Do It. I've Done It Before. It's No Big Deal. You Just Make An Adjustment. You Convince Yourself It's All Right. That's All. It's Easy. You Just Slaughter Them.

For Me, Playwriting Is And Has Always Been Like Making A Chair. Your Concerns Are Balance, Form, Timing, Lights, Space, Music. If You Don't Have These Essentials, You Might As Well Be Writing A Theoretical Essay, Not A Play.

When You Consider All The Writers Who Never Even Had A Machine. Who Would Have Given An Eyeball For A Good Typewriter. Any Typewriter. All The Ones Who Wrote On A Matchbook Covers. Paper Bags. Toilet Paper. Who Had Their Writing Destroyed By Their Jailers. Who Persisted Beyond All Odds.