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I wrote a play once called 'Lobby Hero,' which I thought turned out very well, but there's no final version of it. I published the one we produced, but there are seven other versions with different variations sitting in my desk at home.

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I grew up going to the movies, not watching them on television, so I'm still a bit resistant to TV as a medium.

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It's not a character flaw to become an adult.

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Teenagers all think their life is a movie. If you break up with someone or you have a fight, you walk around with movie scores playing in your head. You sort of see yourself suffering as you're suffering. There's a lot of melodrama attached to the real events of your life.

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I've just always been interested in alter-naturalism and seeing if you can make real life interesting enough to be dramatic without enhancing it. Like, could you make a movie or write a play in which there's no compression of time, there's no enhanced event, it's just real life?

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I love accents, I love listening to people talk, I like to try to emulate it as accurately as I can.

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I think I have never seen a humorless movie that was any good to me.

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I love 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind.'

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I've done a lot of assignment work in my life, and the only way you can do it is to make it your own as quickly as possible, and then you give it back.

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I remember the kind of teenager I was, the kind of teenager I wanted to be, and then the kind of teenagers that were all around me. Life is lived on such a big scale in those years - and such an embarrassing one as well.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Playwright

Born: October 16th, 1962

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