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It's hard to find a play that's right for me to do. Rather than waiting around for the right script to come along, I decided to write one myself.

What really happened was one day I decided to write a new kind of play.

Give me good writing, and I'll play it all day.

Eventually, before I die, I hope to have written about every part I've played.

Before trying a novel I wrote a couple of plays.

I'd love to do some new plays.

Why should I write a play? I don't have to write a play, do I? But somehow, I think that's what I'm here for, so I'd better do it.

I've never written a play before, and I'll never write one again. You can quote me.

When I write a play, and we read it for the first time, the great fear is that everybody is going to say, 'You're a bum and you can't write. This stinks.' and throw the script in the garbage. The great hope is that they're all going to lift me up on their shoulders and carry me to the streets, singing, 'He's a genius, he's a genius!'

I'm excited about the idea of an act of theatre triggering a parallel creative act of writing.