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

Most adaptations of plays I hate, because they don't envision something as cinema at all, you know?

I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I'd rather write plays.

To adapt a play into a movie, you have to change it.

I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as I love movies.

There's no point in making films unless you intend to show us something special, otherwise just go out and watch a play.

If a film doesn't play, people aren't going to be that nice.

I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.

I never go to the movies when I'm doing a play.

I do have some theatrical background. I've written plays and seen plays and read plays. But I also read novels. One thing I don't read is screenplays.