I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
I've only ever taken a playwriting class, but I like creative writing and writing screenplays.
Screenwriting is like ironing. You move forward a little bit and go back and smooth things out.
I'd be lying if I said that any part of writing is easy for me, but I have always found that setting comes more naturally to me than, say, writing action scenes.
I love writing plays because they are living, fluid things that are energised by the producer, designers, musicians, actors and audience.
I had always been interested in screenwriting, ever since I could write things down as a child. Obviously, I started as an actor, professionally, but screenwriting was always something that I had a great interest in.
I don't actually sit down and write, but I just have a lot of different ideas about films and making movies.
I've always known that writing plays is very difficult, because I've written three or four that have never been produced.
I've always been a writer, I've always been a storyteller, but I never thought about screenwriting.
I don't think screenwriting is therapeutic. It's actually really, really hard for me. It's not an enjoyable process.