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I stay away from heavy-handed stuff, the good guy and the bad guy. It just doesn't interest me; all it does is create more fences between people, I think.

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All good writing comes out of aloneness.

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Hats look exactly the same. There's no difference between The Writing Hat and The Acting Hat.

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I'm extremely grateful that I found writing, but it doesn't make it any more peaceful.

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Film acting is really the trick of doing moments. You rarely do a take that lasts more than 20 seconds. You really earn your spurs acting onstage. I needed to do that for myself. I would hate to say at the end of everything that I never did a stage play.

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I feel like I've never had a home, you know? I feel related to the country, to this country, and yet I don't know exactly where I fit in... There's always this kind of nostalgia for a place, a place where you can reckon with yourself.

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I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer.

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I'm a writer. The more I act, the more resistance I have to it. If you accept work in a movie, you accept to be entrapped for a certain part of time, but you know you're getting out. I'm also earning enough to keep my horses, buying some time to write.

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You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.

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Hollywood is geared toward teenage idiocy.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Playwright

Born: November 5th, 1943

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