From transcripts of conversations between Maria Irene Fornes, a Cuban-American playwright and director, and Michelle Memran, a filmmaker. Memran’s documentary about Fornes’s life, The Rest I Make Up, is currently in postproduction.

michelle memran: Of all your lovers, I’ve only heard you talk about Susan Sontag. Why is that?

maria irene fornes: If I say, “Because she is the love of my life,” would you get any more information? Right now my eyes begin to tear up and this is 155 years later, right? Why is someone the love of your life?…