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I love writing plays because they are living, fluid things that are energised by the producer, designers, musicians, actors and audience.

My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language.

For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don't have these essentials, you might as well be writing a theoretical essay, not a play.

Before trying a novel I wrote a couple of plays.

I don't write a play from beginning to end. I don't write an outline. I write scenes and moments as they occur to me. And I still write on a typewriter. It's not all in ether. It's on pages. I sequence them in a way that tends to make sense. Then I write what's missing, and that's my first draft.

I think what helps me when I'm working on a play, any play, is the degree to which the writer has truly visualized, and then fulfilled, the vision of the world that he or she is creating.

I've only ever taken a playwriting class, but I like creative writing and writing screenplays.

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

I've written a couple screenplays and half-finished plays.