I think because my brother was an actor and I just saw how he struggled through, I guess I'm sensitive to it..

I've been living in Portland for five months and I'm not sure how I feel about it. I probably won't really know for years because that's how it works….

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….

I dont see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can..

It's been hard for me to not write, and that's the only process I can speak to I guess, it's so compulsive and I need to do it all the time that some….

When I'm directing, I'm pretty much not writing, but when I'm not directing I am writing a lot..

Sometimes when I'm directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that's okay with me..

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 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….

A typical day for me is I'm writing when I'm not directing..

I don't put big concepts on my work, and it's all often about keeping actors in a room together and not letting them leave..

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 think auditioning can be very reductive and I just hate how actors work really hard and most of them aren't going to get the job, and I hate puttin….

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….

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 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'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….

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

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. ….