 I find there's almost no place to put an award that one's quite comfortable with. |
| You know, I once leased a Mercedes because I got a good deal on it because of my first name. |
| Also, I had read a book called She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders, written by a professor who had gone through transgender surgery, but it took this person well into his thirties to come to terms with the absolute necessity of having to do it. |
| Nature chooses who will be transgender; individuals don't choose this. |
| I learned a lot more about transgender people. It's not a choice, but a physiological condition that has to do with the size of the hypothalamus part of the brain. |
| We have the tendency to condemn what we don't understand. |
| But in my own particular case, there was something that happened when I became a mother. Whenever in the news I saw an example of a child being abused or mistreated, my response went from being appalled to being physically revolted. |
| In this business, you never say no to anything. |
| Society historically has a difficult time with the concept of something new and foreign that shakes up our comfortable views, especially if it involves the very volatile question of sexual identity. |
| Writing of that caliber spoils you for any other kind of writing for awhile. But that's probably good. |
| I'll be with The Goat until the fall. Then I've been given three plays to look at and there have been a couple of films have come over the desk. I will probably not do either one of them. |
