As Writers, We Can't Predict

I Spend Most Of My Time Thinking About Things Like Laundry And Buying Stationery Supplies.

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.

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.

Children, I Always Think, Are Just Putting On A Performance Of Being Naive And Not Understanding Anything. I Have Worked With Children In Films, And They're Treated As Adults And They Just Drop The Pretense Of Being Children.

In My Early 20s, I Studied History And Politics, And I Really Thought That Perhaps I Would Devote My Life To That.