I remember saying to my agent, "Listen, everybody's going out to Hollywood and making movies. I think I ought to go out there. " And his advice to me was, "I wouldn't do that if I were you. If they want you in Hollywood, they'll send you. " And sure enough, they did.
There's a real fantasy quotient to my work. Any play that I've written for myself to perform in basically begins with the idea, "Wouldn't it be fun to be, say, Jean Harlow in a pre-code movie?"