I Don't Have An Idea For A Play Until After I've Finished Writing It. I Write First, And Come Up With What It's About Later. My Technique Could Be Compared To Having A Large Canvas And Coming In Every Day And Putting A Dot On It Somewhere, And After Several Years - Literally - I Begin To Say, That Reminds Me Of An Elephant, So I Think I'll Make It One.

-Wallace Shawn

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I Don't Have An Idea For A

Wallace Shawn

I Don't Have An Idea For A Play Until After I've Finished Writing It. I Write First, And Come Up With What It's About Later. My Technique Could Be Compared To Having A Large Canvas And Coming In Every Day And Putting A Dot On It Somewhere, And After Several Years - Literally - I Begin To Say, That Reminds Me Of An Elephant, So I Think I'll Make It One.

Topic

Writing

Thinking

Years

In Terms Of Number Of Movies, I've Been In An Extraordinary Amount. If You Count Only The Minutes I'm Onscreen, It's Not So Long.

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Long

Minutes