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I think writing for the theater is much more difficult, because you are limited by the
proscenium arch, and you can only get people on stage through a door; whereas, when I first
went to Hollywood, a producer came to me and said to me, “Why do you have everybody coming
in a scene through a door. It was my theatre training. In pictures you have great latitude.
You can show a man in a room, saying, “Well, I’m going driving.” In the next scene,
you see him in your car, and he’s driving, and you jump to that. I think theater is more
difficult too because, I think—these gentlemen may not agree with me—it’s not quite natural.
You have three walls, and everybody in that room is faces the fourth wall. Now, in life,
they don’t do that, so it’s difficult to make it seem natural. If you go to the
theater, and everybody’s got their back to you and speaking upstage, you’re going
to walk out.