You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.
When you've got good actors, they're going to come up with good stuff, but you're never quite sure how the dynamics are going to work between them.
I won't work on anyone's else's script. I won't write for anyone else. I write my own stuff and make that when the time is right.
The fact that ticket prices are way too expensive, and there's only one bunch of people going to see Broadway shows, is something I've never liked.
I think as a writer you never have to flee from fame because you're not that visible in the first place, but, after the Broadway success of 'Beauty Queen,' people were coming up to me all the time, and I wasn't really prepared for that level of attention.
All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy.
It's the periods and the commas that you have to forget about. The words never change, but the intonations change.
Hold the mirror up to nature. Human behavior is worthy of examination and celebration.
As Christians, our duty is to pray for them and ask the Lord to give them the grace of penance, so that they don't die with a corrupt heart, because otherwise the dogs of hell will take their blood.
I was a show-off as a kid and loved to dress up. I was constantly in costume, drawing mustaches on with eyeliner and letting my sister plait my hair and all that.
I love sushi, I love fried chicken, I love steak. But there is a limit to my love.