I was definitely surprised when Talk Radio took off as a play. As a film it has become somewhere between a popular thing and a cult thing.
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Well, the real Eric Bogosian is pretty self-conscious of himself.
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It's a mental fake-out to myself. I make believe I'm making a new show so I forget the material I was working on and make up some fresh material.
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I know that I'm inadequate, but I never thought that at seventeen. I thought I was doing the best I could. I thought I was being idealistic.
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I write, but I also act.
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I write for an audience that likes what I like, reads what I read, thinks about the things I think about. In many ways, this puts me in opposition to the people who go to the theater generally.
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Ensemble is hard to do. It's like 3-D chess.
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I'm very underground.
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For a long time, my shows were about people walking out or about getting my gigs canceled or having the presenter not wanting to pay me.