you spent some time with gabriel garcía márquez... >> i did, yes. very lucky. >> hinojosa: wow! yeah, that was in 1989. he was allowed to visit the united states. you know, he wasn't... he was banned for a long time. he got a three-week visa to go to the sundance institute, and so he taught a three-week writing workshop with about a dozen writers from the states, so i did get to know him. >> hinojosa: that's pretty special. >> yeah, it was. it was a turning point, you know? because he's... >> hinojosa: because... >> well, he's such a hero of mine, and i had, you know, as a playwright, i'd grown up in the tradition of realism-- tennessee williams, eugene o'neill, henrick ibsen, you know? and then here comes márquez with this entirely new way to tell story, and it hadn't been done in the theater very much. and so i... one of the things i wanted to do as a playwright was explore that form in the theater where it didn't exist. and so meeting him and working with him was, you know, one of the... revolutionary. >> hinojosa: so what's the greatest secret that you learned from gabel gar