I love writing for the screen.
BETH HENLEYI love writing for the screen.
BETH HENLEYI just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness.
BETH HENLEYMy first few plays took place in the South and even The Lucky Spot was in the thirties but in Louisiana.
BETH HENLEYI was just restless with being in school; so I went out to Los Angeles.
BETH HENLEYI love to work, although sometimes I can spend whole days doing nothing more than picking the lint off the carpet and talking to my mother on the phone.
BETH HENLEYAnd all writing is creating or spinning dreams for other people so they won’t have to bother doing it themselves.
BETH HENLEYI did write a couple of original screenplays, but I’d rather write plays.
BETH HENLEYIt’s really interesting that whenever you do something that is so out of character, like having an emotional outburst, that you don’t get in trouble.
BETH HENLEYIn movement class, you had to lie on the floor and get your alignment in to pass the class.
BETH HENLEYI’m very into the first production of the show.
BETH HENLEYBut when I got to SMU and decided to take a playwriting class, I said this isn’t a bad idea. IfI write characters, they could be as dumb as me, and I don’t have to be very smart.
BETH HENLEYWhat I loved about the acting class was that you got to think all day long about a person that wasn’t you, and figure out why they were sad and what they wanted, what they dreamed.
BETH HENLEYThat was always my inclination, to start on a new play before the other one gets done, because at least you’ll have something to go back to if that play gets trashed.
BETH HENLEYBut here’s the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright.
BETH HENLEYThe most glorious thing about working in the collaborative art is when you have somebody like Susan Kingsley or Kathy Bates who are better than your play.
BETH HENLEYI tried to start a theatre in LA and failed miserably, but I was probably not meant to raise money.
BETH HENLEY