If you put someone in a room with no script to direct, they're just going to sit there. Writing scripts is the execution for a show. Then the director takes that and hires people. It's like trying to build a house without any bricks. You need the script. I could build the house, but I have to know how.

The modern economics of the theater is such that we write plays with fewer and fewer characters.

When I write a screenplay - and I think this is true for a lot of people - you direct the movie. That's what writing a screenplay is.

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