I Think I'm Trying To Write Truthfully

I Don't See That Many Plays, And For Me, Musicals Are Rarely Pleasing. I Feel The Actors Are Being Put Through A Kind Of Nightmarish Labor. They're Like Animals Being Forced To Pull Heavy Carts Of Vegetables At Incredible Speeds.

I Grew Up In A Very Polite Family, And I Suppose My Parents Were Both Very Polite, And From The Time I Was A Young Boy, I Suspected That There Were Passions Seething Underneath And Not Being Mentioned, And That Was Something That Came To Preoccupy Me. Somehow I Had Some Drive To Write Down What People Might Really Be Thinking.

When I Was A Child, I Did Always Feel That People Were Hiding Things, And That They Weren't Expressing Their True Feelings. When Adults Are Too Complicated, And Cover Their Emotions With Layers Of Well-intentioned Subterfuge, The Child Isn't Seeing Reality Clearly Enough And Gets Upset.

As Writers, We Can't Predict Who Might Come Along Who Might Find Our Offerings Valuable.

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.