I’m very into the first production of the show.
BETH HENLEYAnd all writing is creating or spinning dreams for other people so they won’t have to bother doing it themselves.
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And all writing is creating or spinning dreams for other people so they won’t have to bother doing it themselves.
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The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi.
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What 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.
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That’s what I like about [smoking] . . . taking a drag off of death, Mmm! Gives me a sense of controlling my own destiny. What power! What exhilaration! Want a drag?
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That 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.
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I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness.
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Part of that is that New York has proved to be too much fun for me to live and work; I love New York so much.
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It’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.
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Plays are so much more special if they’ve never ever had a production, but I think you can really work on a play and make it better with each production.
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I tried to start a theatre in LA and failed miserably, but I was probably not meant to raise money.
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But 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.
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I was just restless with being in school; so I went out to Los Angeles.
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But 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.
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I love writing for the screen.
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It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright.
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