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I wanted to write plays. I was at Yale graduate school at the time for English literature, not for acting... I liked the idea…

— David Duchovny

I got really into writing plays. I did that for years and years and got some produced and didn't like it as much when…

— Jake M. Johnson

I had to learn all the pieces backward and forward [to play it in "Florence Foster Jenkins"]. We practiced on weekends. It was very…

— Simon Helberg

I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I'd rather write plays

— Beth Henley

When I first started, I didn't really know how to structure a play. I could write dialogue, but I just sort of failed beyond…

— Sam Shepard

Suddenly I was writing a lot of screenplays, and I was no long in New York, so I stopped acting in plays, and it…

— Michael Cristofer

For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don't…

— Sam Shepard

I fell into writing plays by accident. But the reason I write plays is that it's the only thing I'm any good at.

— David Hare

When I was first starting to write plays, I quite literally had never heard of the idea of studying playwriting. I wouldn't have studied…

— Wallace Shawn

Plays were really my last option. The reason I didn't write plays initially was because I thought theatre was the worst of all the…

— Martin McDonagh

I started as a playwright. Any sort of scriptwriting you do helps you hone your story. You have the same demands of creating a…

— Suzanne Collins

I always loved theater and acting in plays and directing, writing little plays and directing friends in plays.

— Todd Haynes