My Father Was A Jazz Listener, And

I Wrote My First Play At The Age Of 10, 55 Years Ago, And I've Always Found It A Fantastic Relief To Imagine I Know What Things Would Be Like From The Point Of View Of Other Individuals And To Send Out Signals From Where I Actually Am Not. Playwrights Never Need To Write From The Place Where They Are.

I See Myself As A Citizen Of The Planet. Even As A Child, I Always Found It Mindless To Root For Your Own Team. I Was Puzzled By The Fact That People Said Their Own Team Was Better Than Other Teams Simply Because It Was Theirs.

My Father Was A Jazz Listener, And I Think, At Least Before I Was 5, I Was Not So Into That. Although There Were Records That Emphasized Percussion That I Liked, Like Baby Dodds.

After Being In One Movie, It Didn't Seem Like That Would Be My Life. I Had Done Several Jobs, Briefly. I'd Been A Shipping Clerk, I Worked In A Copy Shop, I Didn't Think The Acting Was Going To Go On And On.

I Think I'm Trying To Write Truthfully About Life, And Naturalism, Or The Way People Normally Talk In Movies, Is A Convention. It's Not The Way People Talk In Life At All.