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I want to be a playwright the way people are bank tellers. I want to keep doing it and have it go steadily and smoothly.

I'm a playwright who gets involved in movies when I'm not writing a play.

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.

It's very hard to be a playwright because it's very competitive.

We need theatre that is contemporary, lively and relevant, and the only way to do that is to take care of our playwrights and produce their plays.

I'm an actor and a playwright, and I don't earn much.

I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories.

One of the things you hope you've done as a playwright is create roles that can sustain different interpretations.

I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre.