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" But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright. "
Copyright
Poet
Here
" I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I'd rather write plays. "
Rather
Original
Did
" I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays. "
Mother
Community
Really
" I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness. "
Being
Just
Loved
" I love writing for the screen. "
Screen
I Love
Writing
" I'm very into the first production of the show. "
Very
Show
First
" In movement class, you had to lie on the floor and get your alignment in to pass the class. "
Movement
You
Lie
" I tried to start a theatre in LA and failed miserably, but I was probably not meant to raise money. "
Raise
Theatre
Tried
" It's called Sisters of the Winter Madrigal. It was interesting for me to see it done after so many years; because I wrote it and I didn't realize what a rage I was in. "
See
Winter
Interesting
" It's really interesting that whenever you do something that is so out of character, like having an emotional outburst, that you don't get in trouble. "
Trouble
You
Character
" It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright. "
Playwright
Kind
Become
" I was just restless with being in school; so I went out to Los Angeles. "
School
Just
Los Angeles
" My fault now is making my plays too short. "
Short
Too
Fault
" My first few plays took place in the South and even The Lucky Spot was in the thirties but in Louisiana. "
Lucky
Even
First
" Part of that is that New York has proved to be too much fun for me to live and work; I love New York so much. "
Work
Fun
Live
" Plays are so much more special if they've never ever had a production, but I think you can really work on a play and make it better with each production. "
Play
Work
Special
" Somehow I got to be one of five or six actors that the directors would use as guinea pigs at this directing colloquium, where people pay to listen to and watch the directors direct. "
People
Pigs
Pay
" Some really good things kind of swing both ways and I like to see people that can swing really, really, really sad and horrible and terrible and really, really, really beautiful and funny. "
Funny
Beautiful
See
" That was always my inclination, to start on a new play before the other one gets done, because at least you'll have something to go back to if that play gets trashed. "
Back
Start
Always
" The impetus behind going to graduate school was a year after graduating from college spent in Dallas working at the dog food factory and Bank America and not having met success in my chosen field, which at that point was being an actress. "
Dog
College
Success
" The most glorious thing about working in the collaborative art is when you have somebody like Susan Kingsley or Kathy Bates who are better than your play. "
Working
Art
Like
" The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi. "
Alone
Writing
Woman
" Then I went off to Southern Methodist University in Dallas. They had a really wonderful theatre department. "
Dallas
Wonderful
University
" Then, when I was a senior in high school, I was kind of bereft and she put me in an acting class. "
School
She
Me
" What I loved about the acting class was that you got to think all day long about a person that wasn't you, and figure out why they were sad and what they wanted, what they dreamed. "
Day
Think
Long
" You can't just go in there and open your mouth until the cast and director feel comfortable with you. "
Director
Feel
Mouth
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