When you're working on a play like 'Sloane,' that play works; you don't have to worry about that. When you're working on a new play like 'Little Dog,' you have no clue if the play works. You're exploring.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
That's the difference between working on film and working in a play. In a play, you work on it, and you live in it and develop it and make it happen.
Before trying a novel I wrote a couple of plays.
The interesting thing about doing a play is to find a way to make it fresh and do it as though you were doing it for the first time.
You write a play mostly out of yourself. There's a need to get a certain thing down.
The conversation of how you do a play is my favorite conversation in the whole wide world: what a play is, why it's different than anything else, the math of the way that human behavior has to be calibrated theatrically versus anything else.
When I tried to play something and screwed up, I'd hear some other note that would come into play. Then I started trying different things to find the beauty in it.
I simply do not distinguish between work and play.
A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.
Choosing to write a play is some kind of surrender. I don't make an outline. I sit and work, and suddenly the door opens, and out it comes.
When you're doing a play, you don't always have a practical world that you're working off of. You have to create it for yourself.