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My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldn't understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer.
When I got to the reading all the work, I was reduced to being an actor in an experimental play that I'd already written. And I didn't want to be an actor.
I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions.
I reserve the right to tell shaggy dog stories or even common jokes as part of what I'm doing. I don't give a damn if half the audience walks out.
While I don't script and I don't use other performers, I think my taste for underlying precision gives me something in common with Allan and George Brecht.
I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred.
An art machine is a system
whose parts when put in motion
act upon each other in such a way
as to cause you to see things differently
My way of thinking is very particular and concrete. It doesn't follow a continuous path.
Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives.
I had no idea where these kids at a small private college in the San Fernando Valley were coming from, why they were coming to hear me, or what they needed to know.
Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying.
When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval.
The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the Muse to help them remember.
From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us.
It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel.
When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience.
I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or maybe even Newton.
