Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.
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Theater is so precious about each word - not that it's a bad thing, but you definitely never stray from the script.
When theatre works, it's like nothing else, and when it doesn't, which is often, it's excruciating. It's perhaps not so excruciating when a novel goes wrong, but there is a kind of magic that can and should happen.
Actors and writers need to come back to the theater because it's a place where you can learn. You have to pay your dues, and people who haven't paid their dues in the theater, I think, have a hard time creating a whole career.
The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
The modern economics of the theater is such that we write plays with fewer and fewer characters.
I think the writing skills of actors are sometimes underestimated.
Being creative and making money in the theater is very challenging.
The economics of being a playwright are abysmal. I like to think of the work I do out in Hollywood as a way to actually make a life in the theater easier.
Let's just say that the theater is not for the faint of heart.
Theatre's a whole different beast to film. It requires a lot more of you.
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