The way we tell our stories on stage is that we use spoken word to convey action, and in movies, we use visual images to convey action.

When I write a play, and we read it for the first time, the great fear is that everybody is going to say, 'You're a bum and you can't write. This stinks.' and throw the script in the garbage. The great hope is that they're all going to lift me up on their shoulders and carry me to the streets, singing, 'He's a genius, he's a genius!'

I don't write plays for them to be turned into movies.

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