The NY Times has a great long article on the prolific writer Horton Foote, still getting plays and screenplays produced at the age of 91.
(Via ArtsJournal.)

I still think the best naturalistic directing I’ve ever done was of that scene from his play Courtship, with student actors, for the Summer Workshop at Harvard-Westlake. With the lovely Lauren Schaffel, who was in the Mr. Show episode “Sad Songs are Nature’s Onions!”

Foote on the writing life(style) and the lack of proper habillements:

“I’m so glad that Hallie and Devon don’t mind when I write all night. When I’m working, I’m not lonely. I was always this way. When we first went to New Hampshire, I’d start writing right out of bed, in my pajamas, and then I’d get so excited I’d never get dressed. Daisy would bring friends home after school, and I’d be in my pajamas, and she’d say to her mother: ‘Daddy’s got to get dressed. They think he’s an alcoholic.’ ”

And on the untimeliness of death:

Foote spent two years developing a script of his 1979 play “The Widow Claire” with Robert Altman. Just as the money was raised, the director died. “I was so impressed with Altman,” he said. “I feel a little cheated.”

CurtainUp also has an overview of Foote’s career here.