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The good thing is that life is sometimes a work in progress.
I've lived my entire life in New York, and it informs everything.
I think anything that anyone writes thats any good is going to have a lot of autobiography.
I think anything that anyone writes that's any good is going to have a lot of autobiography.
To write drama is to leave a can of Coke by the side of the road. Then, sit on that can of Coke. Where's the can of Coke now?
I was raised a Catholic, so I can even feel a little, you know, embarrassed or guilty if I'm really offending people's sensibilities. To a degree.
I had just done something in TV, but my real love is theater. I had won this award and I was up at Yale, and I was happy because it came with money.
I'm not like a champion of profanity. I write what I hear, and the characters that I write, that's how they talk. That's how I talk a lot of the time. So I'm not trying to advance a social cause.
When I was a kid and I'd be in trouble. I'd ask God to help me, and then once the fire was out, I wouldn't talk to Him anymore. When I got older, I began to find I needed some help spiritually, just to function.
September 11 reinforced for me that whatever I'm writing about, it better be something that really matters to me because we don't know what's going to happen tomorrow. And for me it's stories about people in pain in New York.