Everyone's gotta make their own way.
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.
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
I know the colour rose, and it is lovely, But not when it ripens in a tumour; And healing greens, leaves and grass, so springlike, In limbs that fester are not springlike.
Love is a tyrant, resisted.
If the mother had not beene in the oven, shee had never sought her daughter there.
I've been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.