I'm very much interested in doing actual theater.
My true nature, I believe, is writing.
I had to audition as an actor, and I got so tired of doing the same monologues over and over, so I started writing my own, and then I started selling them to other actors.
Sondheim is my god; I love the man. I learned a great deal about writing from his work, his lyrics, and his structure.
There is a musical rhythm to great writing, especially if it's performed correctly.
Every marriage is weird! That's what it is - we just all need to start embracing the fact that there is no normal.
It's not uncommon to have chaotic writers' rooms.
The territory has changed, and a lot of really good actors want to do cable series, but they don't necessarily want to do network TV and make the commitment of 22 episodes or whatever. They find that the liberties and the creative freedoms that you get in cable is more interesting to them than the censorship of a network show.
As soon as you're finished shooting, you have to go into the edit room and choose all of the shots that you're going to commit to because the visual effects vendor has to get it because they'll spend months on it. So, you're editing out of sequence before you've gotten a film for the movie and the performances.
The woman who runs the Pennsylvania Innocence Project told me that there's a man she's been trying to get out of prison for 26 years. Every night before she goes to bed, she thinks, 'What is he doing?' She says you don't sleep. And yet, she has the greatest sense of humor and this light that comes out of her.
I've been a teenager. I even feel like I've been a 16-year-old girl. So I have a lot of voices inside my head!
I don't want to be a writer where all the characters sound the same. There's a facility in that kind of writing.
The South is like a foreign country to me!
How do you survive living in a cell knowing you are innocent? Many of those exonerated whom I have met seem to have a more benign, grateful attitude toward life than those of us who walk free. Many find a religious or spiritual stronghold.
A friend of mine from college is married to Neil Levy, who started on 'Saturday Night Live' in the early days and is a really great guy and funny writer.
I didn't write to become a director, which many people do.
I'm not really a believer in romantic, happily-ever-after love stories.
We have people in our lives who help us evolve along the way. If you're lucky, you find someone who evolves along with you, and that's what you call a long-term relationship.
Nowadays, Skype is a generational way of putting both people on camera at the same time.
I always thought that if you don't feel the breath in the actors' bodies, you lose all the intimacy and truth.
