A writer's main tool is his memory - his own memory, the collective memory of his people. And the strongest memory is the one that is created by a wound to the heart.
It's a very unnatural environment to be in, up on a stage. So you put up defenses to hide. Like looking at the ground with your hair in your eyes, or being tightly wound and quite aggressive and uncooperative, as I used to do.
You have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time.
I always wanted to be an anchorman, but after college I wound up working behind the scenes at CBS News for 10 years.
There's a lot of room for error with a wound in the rear. It's a wide target.
I went into rehab to save my marriage, but I wound up saving myself.
Plot exposition that can be gently wound out by the authorial voice and internal monologue of a character in the length of a page has to be delivered in a matter of seconds on the stage.
With yoga, it works every part of the body and increases range of motion. People think you get super flexible and you lose your power in sport. I'm getting back to normal because I'm so wound up and tight.
The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.
I do know that detachment is important. A surgeon can't be weeping into the open wound.
When I was boxing I made five million and wound up broke, owing the government a million.
Ironically, if only because over the years I've known so many - from college deans to studio executives to European expats - who come to Los Angeles aspiring to nothing other than living in Topanga, I wound up there by accident.
I wound up getting pulled into being a consultant on the Lifetime drama 'For the People.' The executive producer said, 'I want you to write scripts.' We sold pilots to a bunch of different networks.