Playwrights are naturally wary and protective - God, who's more protective than a playwright? You read a play, the playwright wants to hear from you immediately.
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For a long time I managed to think two things simultaneously, that I am actually a good playwright, and that the next time I write a play I will be revealed as someone who is no good at all.
To me, the job of a playwright is to explore and bring to light our lives. You can't hold back; you have to give in to this. Sometimes, you say things people don't want to hear.
As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people.
One of the things you hope you've done as a playwright is create roles that can sustain different interpretations.
A conventional playwright tries to tell you more about the characters than they know about themselves.
I'm not a playwright; I'm a writer who loves theater.
I sometimes get very protective of the people I play.
A playwright must be his own audience. A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience for a minute.
I enjoy all forms of writing, but playwrighting is what made me what I am. Not only working with the ghosts of Chekhov and Ibsen and Shakespeare, but what it is to be a playwright, to be interacting with human beings in the live theater and affect people on such a direct, emotional level.
You can't be a playwright without believing there's an audience for adventurous work.
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