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

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

I imagine a soul is a little perfect crystal egg floating in your chest. Somewhere deeper than where they put your heart. Somewhere so deep inside th….

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

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..

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

Fifteen years ago I killed my sister..

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 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'm pretty obsessive-compulsive and I'm very fast. I tend to not write for a long period of time until I can't not write, and then I write first draf….

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

There must be some unwritten law that says about fifty people have to move into your house when somebody dies. If it weren't for the smell of death c….

My life has been in shambles, like my personal relationships, my laundry, paying bills now I have someone who pays my bills and it's always been a ch….

I've never really felt good at the parties, but I have enough friends now that I feel social, I used to feel very antisocial, but I think the theater….

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….

I don't like the sort of hierarchical, totalitarian type of room a lot of directors can find themselves in..

I had a sort of bad experiences as a playwright early on, when directors were putting in huge concepts that I didn't intend, or they were stylizing s….

When I kicked in the first TV – a nineteen-inch Magnavox with wicker speaker panels – it felt like the most perfect thing I had done in a long time. ….

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

You can't run forever. There's only so much pavement that the road makers lay down. After a while, the highway quits going north and it just turns in….

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.….