Man, that's the only kind of book I like – one that's so real you want to find out everything there is to know about the person who wrote it, like ho….

I don't know where the characters are going to go or what's going to happen. I know that something inevitable will happen. I know that they want cert….

I don't mind him not talking so much, because you can hear his voice in your heart; the same way you can hear a song in your head even if there isn't….

I think I'm a little more daunted by when the machinery of the play is really huge..

You have to escape to survive, as you must survive to escape..

I think, for me, when I direct my own work it's just an extension of the authorship..

It's strange, people have asked me what my schedule is and what is my process like, and I can't even answer it..

When it's just a few scenes and a couple of actors behaving in a room, I feel very confident with that..

I try not to write more than two or three, I try to just write one if possible, I write till the end at least a draft of a play or a novel; but somet….

My work is always more emotional than I am. My characters say things to each other that I get accused of not being able to say to my girlfriend..

I've never really felt that I've had the right hair cut, or had the right clothes..

We only have so much time.... Time will kill you – it really will..

I think there is a complicated side effect to overcoming evil in that we are forever changed by it. I think after we ingest some of the cruelty of th….

I grew up eating hamburger helper, macaroni and cheese, and drinking lots of milk, and looked at lots of cows; but I feel like a New Yorker now, I've….

I would hope that the staffs at juvenile detention centers and reform schools are carefully chosen so that there is a community of support and hope..

Whenever I've been in rehearsals, it's really fun, there's always laughing..

I began stealing a lot of ideas from other directors I had worked with..

I feel that I am just a storyteller, and whether I am wearing the director hat or the playwright hat, it doesn't matter..

Fifteen years ago I killed my sister..

One of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them leave. You want the tension to escalate. Keeping them t….

When I got inside, I just sort of stood there. There's nothing stranger than the smell of someone else's house. The scent goes right to your stomach.….