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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.

I get the impression sometimes that a play arrives in a sequence of events that I have no control over.

Have I seen any plays that I've been in? Uh, you know, might be a little weird.

I've never been in a bad play. There might have been bad productions and I might have been bad in them, but I've never been in a play that wasn't interesting or worthwhile doing on some level.

Plays, especially great plays, yield their secrets over a long period of time. You can't read it three times and say, 'OK, I got it. I know what's happening.'

I'm not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, I'm rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do.

I'm aware of my old plays and occasionally think about them, but I'm much more anxious about finding the next play.

Here's what happens in a play. You get involved in a situation where something is unbalanced. If nothing's unbalanced, there's no reason to have a play. If Hamlet comes home from school, and his dad's not dead and asks him if he's had a good time, it's boring. But if something's unbalanced, it must be returned to order.

I love a good play, but they're too hard to find.

I've always known that writing plays is very difficult, because I've written three or four that have never been produced.