But when I got to SMU and decided to take a playwriting class, I said this isn't a bad idea. IfI write characters, they could be as dumb as me, and I don't have to be very smart.
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 p… - Beth Henley
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 p…
- Beth Henley
That's what I like about [smoking] . . . taking a drag off of death, Mmm! Gives me a sense of controlling my own destiny. What power! What exhilarati… - Beth Henley
That's what I like about [smoking] . . . taking a drag off of death, Mmm! Gives me a sense of controlling my own destiny. What power! What exhilarati…
I love to work, although sometimes I can spend whole days doing nothing more than picking the lint off the carpet and talking to my mother on the pho… - Beth Henley
I love to work, although sometimes I can spend whole days doing nothing more than picking the lint off the carpet and talking to my mother on the pho…
There are probably brilliant people, geniuses, alive today who don't even know how to say, "Hello, how do you do?" because their minds are absorbed w… - Beth Henley
There are probably brilliant people, geniuses, alive today who don't even know how to say, "Hello, how do you do?" because their minds are absorbed w…
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 product… - Beth Henley
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 product…
In movement class, you had to lie on the floor and get your alignment in to pass the class. - Beth Henley
In movement class, you had to lie on the floor and get your alignment in to pass the class.
I love writing for the screen. - Beth Henley
I love writing for the screen.
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 copyrigh… - Beth Henley
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 copyrigh…
I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays. - Beth Henley
I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays.
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