The way plays happen, at least with me, it's spontaneous combustion of things you've had in your head.
Frank D. Gilroy
I think of myself as a storyteller.
I don't believe in updating. If a play works, it draws something from being true to its time.
Young men who have been away, been to war, they are different when they come home.
You're looking at a guy who has no reason to complain about anything.
I'd like to walk into a room sometime and be introduced as the author of something other than that play. There's always one thing in a career that has more impact than anything else. In my case, 'The Subject Was Roses' was that thing.
I remember how I would wait for a play idea. I wasted a tremendous amount of time. I didn't realize that ideas could be made into movies or novels.
You reach a time... when fact and fiction blend seamlessly. If you do it too soon, it's journalism. If you do it too late, you forget, and it's fantasy. There's an optimum time.
