The rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic and the best idea wins..

When I am directing, it is much, much, much, much, much different. I'm a much more practical person in the world, I show up on time, I am very rigoro….

I feel that I'd rather know an actors' work, or have an instinct about them and sit down and have coffee with them, or I'll see them in something and….

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

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….

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….

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

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

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 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….

Fifteen years ago I killed my sister..

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

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 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..

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….

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….