Yea, O Lord and King, grant me to see my own sin and not to judge my brother, for You are blessed from all ages to all ages. Amen
And all writing is creating or spinning dreams for other people so they won't have to bother doing it themselves.
I tried to start a theatre in LA and failed miserably, but I was probably not meant to raise money
I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays
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.
My first few plays took place in the South and even The Lucky Spot was in the thirties but in Louisiana.
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
There are some men who are masters of cities but slaves to women.
Am I a myth? Am I a legend? Or am I a phenomenon?
Because I went from the Daily Show where I was a fake news guy on a fake news show to Bruce Almighty where I played a news guy to Anchorman where I played a news guy, now I'm. . . yeah, I tend to gravitate towards suits.
If there's a demand of being together in a certain way, those expectations and judgements take away from that space and create an edginess and a cramped-ness to the relationship.