What looks absolutely fabulous in rehearsal can fall flat in front of an audience. The audience dictates what you do or don't change.
The great thing about suicide is that it's not one of those things you have to do now or you lose your chance. I mean, you can always do it later.
I have to work really hard, eight shows a week, to get a nice check as an actor. But when I write a play, and it's a - knock wood - hit, the checks come in for many years.
If you deny yourself commitment what can you do with your life?
So, did I work with Warhol? I worked with him less on that play then I did on other things. He actually did a portrait of my rabbit and some other stuff. Warhol was definitely... Warhol.
Time will tell us what we did and didn't do.
I actually pray everyday, but I don't believe in God.
My play Safe Sex was picked apart because critics thought it was untrue. It was a play in which no one had AIDS, but the characters talked about how it was going to change their lives.
When I write stuff and I help cast it, I turn away good people all the time. I may turn them down because this one's too tall and that one doesn't have a high enough voice or this one looks to old to...