Christopher Durang

Since I also act, sometimes I get over my resentment and commit to the pitch as an acting job.

Laughter can bring a new perspective.

I never graduated to being an atheist. I only graduated to being an agnostic.

On the one hand, I'm grateful to be hired and thrilled to be paid.

I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre.

My father knew the charming side of my mother, and my mother thought that he was attentive and pleasant and was an architect, which was a respectable profession, but I don't think that they actually got to know one another deeply.

My biggest problem with organized religion is that God has been imagined as a human being with emotions. I feel if you let go of that, then it's possible to see God as a force, to connect to him or her spiritually.

Since it's based on my parents, it's more emotionally close to me than some of my more surreal plays. And then I like the balance of the comic and the sad. It should play as funny, but you should care about the characters and feel sad for them.