I think I'm always subconsciously trying to write the ideal school play. Lots of parts for everybody, great parts for women - don't forget, more girls try out than boys in the school play; everyone gets to be in the school play.
Sometimes a line enters your head, and you're so grateful for it. You go online to check to see if anyone wrote it before you. You must have stolen it.
History is so subjective. The teller of it determines it.
What 'Twilight Zone' did was show we all have a great capacity for good and evil.
In the best works of fiction, there's no mustache-twirling villain. I try to write shows where even the bad guy's got his reasons.
I couldn't possibly write 'Next to Normal,' but God, I can weep and watch 'Next to Normal' five times.