People shouldn't trust artists and they shouldn't trust art. Part of the fun...
In a way film and television are in the same sort of traumatic trance that...
The kind of theater that I do is sort of 'narrative realism ' which I think...
There's a kind of a fundamental irresponsibility in playwriting and the...
I feel there's a power in theatre but it's an indirect power. It's like the...
You have a strange relationship with calamity when you're a writer: you write...
I don't feel finally that my politics are entirely determined by the fact...
Artists know that diligence counts as much if not more as inspiration in...
I write plays and movies I live and work at the borderline between word and...
As much as I hate his movies Oliver Stone has an aspiration I admire and...
You don't go to the movies to do historical research unless it's historical...
The way that same-sex marriage should reach the federal level is that it...
If you know that life is basically going to be horrendously difficult at...
You have to have hope. It's irresponsible to give false hope which I think a...
Gay writers now have both a sense of history and the fables that allows them...
A handful of works in history have had a direct impact on social policy: one...
The general consensus among historians among the ones who can handle the...
Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in 'Black Mask' magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler learnt their craft and developed a distinct literary style and attitude toward the modern world.
