I'm very interested in silence. And, more importantly, in what happens when people aren't talking on stage. I'm interested in letting actors play and….

If I think back to every rehearsal process for every play I've ever worked on, there's just so much crying at home. I barely sleep. There are moments….

I feel like the reason I ended up becoming a playwright is because I never choose the right word. As a kid, my fantasy profession was to be a novelis….

For me, on every project, I realize that I've boxed myself into a corner, or that the play necessitates some sort of theatrical convention that I rea….

I'm terrible at speaking extemporaneously about my work - I get completely tongue-tied and consumed with fear..

For early plays of mine, I started with character. But I think that's because I hadn't been in theaters; I hadn't worked that much. I'm very interest….

Yeah, I have the detail-obsessed, controlling personality of a novelist, but I somehow ended up writing plays..

I think growing up in a small town, the kind of people I met in my small town, they still haunt me. I find myself writing about them over and over ag….

I never had a lot of ideas. I always have exactly one that is the next project; the idea of a project beyond that project is ludicrous..

Being sad and going out on terrible dates and having horrible breakups and then having a shitty job and then quitting the shitty job and then wonderi….

I was a very self-righteous 15-25 year old. Anyway, I wake up every morning and thank God I'm not a kid anymore..

I was 22 and stopped writing plays, and I didn't start again until I was 25. I was writing badly. In college, I attempted to write these more convent….

I was raised by a single psychologist mother and we spent every evening sitting at the kitchen table and dissecting our emotions and speculating abou….

I don't enjoy hearing the sound of my voice. The most important things for me are impossible to articulate extemporaneously..

If I were less lazy, when my play was published, I would go and rewrite everything for the reader. But I don't do that. What people are reading is ju….

Writing is my primary way of expressing myself..

There are certain early plays of mine that I really don't like, but I can't imagine going back and fixing them. I would be totally incapable of it. I….

If anything, I was the opposite of most college students who think they can do anything..

I feel with writing, so much of the time, I don't know how to tap in and be spontaneous and alive on a daily basis. So I don't write every day. I'm j….

I feel like my life is at its happiest when I don't have a looming deadline. There's some really groovy wonderful times, when I'm like, "I have a new….

Film can express things that computers never will. Film is a series of photographs separated by split seconds of darkness. Film is light and shadow..