Frank D. Gilroy Quotes
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I don't believe in updating. If a play works, it draws something from being true to its time.
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The way plays happen, at least with me, it's spontaneous combustion of things you've had in your head.
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Young men who have been away, been to war, they are different when they come home.
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You're looking at a guy who has no reason to complain about anything.
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You reach a time... when fact and fiction blend seamlessly. If you do it too soon, it's journalism. If you do it too late, you forget, and it's fantasy. There's an optimum time.
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I remember how I would wait for a play idea. I wasted a tremendous amount of time. I didn't realize that ideas could be made into movies or novels.
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I'd like to walk into a room sometime and be introduced as the author of something other than that play. There's always one thing in a career that has more impact than anything else. In my case, 'The Subject Was Roses' was that thing.