My father was an alcoholic, and my mother fought with him when he was drunk, which was not necessarily the best way to confront the problem. (Christopher Durang)
On the one hand, I'm grateful to be hired and thrilled to be paid. (Christopher Durang)
It was before Vatican II and the liberalization of church doctrine. You weren't meant to eat meat on Friday in deference to Christ, who died on Friday. If you did, you went to hell, ... That way, Hitler would be in hell alongside someone who ate meat on Friday. I thought there was no justice there. (Christopher Durang)
One of my impulses in writing is to take people's crazy behavior and try to make order of what sometimes feels chaotic in the past. (Christopher Durang)
Since I also act, sometimes I get over my resentment and commit to the pitch as an acting job. (Christopher Durang)
Then in college I became obsessed with film, and wanted to be part of that. (Christopher Durang)
This was back in the '50s, pre-talk shows, ... There was not a lot of discussion about grieving. I think my parents had a lot of unexpressed grief. There was an underlying sadness around that permeated. (Christopher Durang)
Usually you cannot laugh if you are in a bad mood or in the throes of a problem that seems like the most serious problem in the world. (Christopher Durang)
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. (Christopher Durang)
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. (Christopher Durang)