Dan Futterman

Dan Futterman (On working with Angelina Jolie): That actress is truly one of my generation's great, great actors. I had a chance to see my friend Phil Hoffman perform up close a couple years ago. You think, "OK, I've had that experience, I can write that one down and tell it to my kids." Then two years later I'm acting with somebody who's giving that same sort of utterly transformational, beautifully emotional performance: incredibly smart; fine-tuned. I was completely knocked out by her.

Dan Futterman: The two biggest moments of my life were walking on-stage [as an actor] in Tony Kushner's Angels in America on opening night on Broadway. The second was being nominated for a screenplay Oscar along with him.

Dan Futterman: I did a semester at school in England and I hated it. So I told the people that were running the school that my brother had Leukaemia and was being treated in Paris, and that I was going to go stay with him. My brother was sort of aghast when he found out, and it was many years later when my parents found out why they got their money back.