Joan Didion Quotes

I love acting. I love play-acting. I love pretending. I love telling stories so whether they be comedic or serious or whatever, it doesn't really matter to me. I enjoy telling a good story. I have it all in me.

I was always into film, but theater was my entry point. I always felt like film didn't make sense to me, as a kid.

Drama - what literature does at night.

The thing I know how to do most is write a play. I came up loving plays and learning about plays and writing plays. I actually feel like an outsider when I'm writing movies and television.

I think acting came later in life when I went to college. I started out there. I wasn't a big star in the school plays or anything. I guess I just really liked stories. I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives. Film and theater are very powerful storytelling mediums. You sit in a dark room and enter another world. I love that as a member of the audience, and I sort of wanted to get on the other side.

Actors, said Granny, witheringly. As if the world weren't full of enough history without inventing more.

Acting is a different discipline. On stage I'm free to say what I please. But the change is very good for ya.

I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories.

The play is a marvelous form, but it demands less than a novel.

Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.

I've always known that writing plays is very difficult, because I've written three or four that have never been produced.

It's wonderful to be able to sit down and write a play.

I love to write. I write everything across the board - kids' stories and novels and scripts. I actually would like to give that a go; I'd like to try to be a writer.

What really happened was one day I decided to write a new kind of play.

Now I can't wait to write my next play.

Writing a new play shouldn't be seen as a mystery belonging to a priesthood, but as a challenge, a technical challenge, just to get into it.

We've always dreamt of a TV series and working in film. When we first sat down to seriously write 'A Little Nightmare Music,' to write something for TV was our original inspiration. But all the stuff we were writing down is not going to work on stage. We had to rewrite it so it would work on the stage.

I've learned that in the theater the story is everything. Every lyric, every line and every musical gesture has to propel the journey of a given character or the overall plot.

I did plays in college, and I have half of a play. But I'm kind of stuck. I keep revisiting it so maybe it will move somewhere. There's something about plays where you can feel that sense of artifice at any moment.

I truly believe that writing is a continuum - so the different genres and forms are simply stops along the same continuum. Different ideas that need to be expressed sometimes require different forms for the ideas to float better. I don't write essays as often as I should.

I would like to write a play.

Writers love to write those idiotic, long stage directions, and some of them worse than others. They have nothing to do with the movie. They're just jerking around.

As a dramatist, I don't have politics.

It’s more than just saying lines and turning the light on. You have to drive the story - there’s a technical aspect.

Actors are the jockeys of literature. Others supply the horses, the plays, and we simply make them run.