Why is being a female having an agenda any more than being a misogynist - which David Mamet most certainly is?
I often find it maddening to live in America, in a way that is both amusing and horrifying to me. America clings to versions of itself that are absolutely hypocritical. I can't shake my outrage at it, so I write about it.
I'm not afraid of just cranking it out and seeing what comes out of my subconscious. Because I don't always know what I'm feeling. I do a lot of rewriting later. But that first blast feels like a spigot - like it's coming from somewhere else.
I see how the Midwest distrusts the East Coast. The Midwest sees itself as morally superior. The Coast sees itself as intellectually superior. And the two are actually the same thing.
Sometimes I feel that my job on earth is to put Julie White through horrible things, watch her writhe and then recover.
When people tell me I'm a prolific writer, it's a nice thing to say. But I think to myself, 'Yeah, but I don't do anything else.'
New York was the Promised Land growing up. Writers were gods! The great gods of American culture... I thought.
The economics of theater are painful. I still think that the theater community should be looking much more rigorously at how to let the playwright keep the money they make.
Generally, what I try to do is always have a money gig and an art gig.
I find a lot of input from other people very stressful.
I like working with television. I do.
