“I got this advice from Marlo Thomas, who got it from her father, Danny Thomas. And that is put on your blinders and run your own race because it is so easy to go see a lot of shows and oh, no, oh, how did they get their show on Broadway? And why can’t I...
The biggest thing is not to compare and despair. We are all on our own specific paths and journeys. You know, one person’s success doesn’t take away from your success. It’s an infinite pie. If I see like, uh, someone post something and I feel that...
“You need to, assemble, uh, some people in your life who are good writers and usually that could be a person in the screenwriting class that you’re taking. It really helps to have a mentor in this business send your script around too. But if you take their...
“And what happens is the number’s over. Old revivals. Yow. Blackout. One of the cowboys rips Velcro. I spin out of this dress. He exits. Underneath it I have a full Liza Minnelli red sequin pantsuit on. And there is a dresser who has run on stage and...
“I’ll tell you one of the things I used to do in my, uh, English, uh, literature classes when I was teaching for the University of Maryland. I take them out and, um, for 10 minutes, all I just said, all I want you to do when I go outside is look up in the...
