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You can't take a play someone has directed and do whatever you want with it.

I don't write plays for them to be turned into movies.

I don't write political plays in the sense that I'm writing essays that are kind of disguised as plays. I would really defy anyone to watch any of my plays and say 'Well, here's the point.'

I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing.

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

I don't think I've been in a supporting role in any of the plays I've done, ever.

You write a play mostly out of yourself. There's a need to get a certain thing down.

Plays are not written but rewritten, and much of the rewriting takes place at the behest of the director, whose job it is to grapple with the myriad complexities of moving a play from the page to the stage.

My plays are ultimately about love, honor, duty, betrayal.