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I was 22 and stopped writing plays, and I didn't start again until I was 25. I was writing badly. In college, I attempted to write these more conventional plays, but the theater I loved was downtown experimental theater. I didn't feel like I could do that either. It didn't occur to me to do my own thing.

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I don't enjoy hearing the sound of my voice. The most important things for me are impossible to articulate extemporaneously.

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If anything, I was the opposite of most college students who think they can do anything.

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I was a very self-righteous 15-25 year old. Anyway, I wake up every morning and thank God I'm not a kid anymore.

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Film can express things that computers never will. Film is a series of photographs separated by split seconds of darkness. Film is light and shadow.

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