Genießen / Enjoy Leiden / Suffering Sagen / Say Schmerzen / Pain Schriftsteller / Writer Zeichen / Characters Zwingen / Forcing
The modern economics of the theater is such that we write plays with fewer and fewer characters.
It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.
I enjoy racing because I want to do it. No one's forcing me.
Outlining is not writing. Coming up with ideas is not writing. Researching is not writing. Creating characters is not writing. Only writing is writing.
Any opera is interesting if the characters are worth seeing.
In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices.
I tend to write one character at a time. But I don't write the entirety of one character at a time.
Write dialogue that supports the situation and the characters, as you find them.
When you're playing a supporting character, you don't really have a lot of control of the quality of the film.
