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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.

Beth Henley

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I tried to start a theatre in LA and failed miserably, but I was probably not meant to raise money.

BETH HENLEY

I tried to start a theatre in LA and failed miserably, but I was probably not meant to raise money.
BETH HENLEY

Raise Theatre
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.
BETH HENLEY

Inclination
In movement class, you had to lie on the floor and get your alignment in to pass the class.

BETH HENLEY

In movement class, you had to lie on the floor and get your alignment in to pass the class.
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There are probably brilliant people, geniuses, alive today who don’t even know how to say, “Hello, how do you do?” because their minds are absorbed with electronic images.

BETH HENLEY

There are probably brilliant people, geniuses, alive today who don’t even know how to say, “Hello, how do you do?” because their minds are absorbed with electronic images.
BETH HENLEY

Today
The impetus behind going to graduate school was a year after graduating from college spent in Dallas working at the dog food factory and Bank America and not having met success in my chosen field, which at that point was being an actress.
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It’s called Sisters of the Winter Madrigal. It was interesting for me to see it done after so many years; because I wrote it and I didn’t realize what a rage I was in.
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Sister Winter Years
I love writing for the screen.
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Screens
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.

BETH HENLEY

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.
BETH HENLEY

Christmas
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.

BETH HENLEY

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.
BETH HENLEY
I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays.
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Community Theatre
It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright.
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Enlightening Playwright
I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness.
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Divorced Own Wretchedness
I 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.
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Phones Talking
I’m very into the first production of the show.

BETH HENLEY

I’m very into the first production of the show.
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Firsts Production
I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I’d rather write plays.
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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.

BETH HENLEY

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.
BETH HENLEY

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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