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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. Mary's house smelled like lemon furniture polish and oatmeal cookies and logs in a fireplace. For some reason it made me want to curl up in the fetal position. I could have slept right there on their kitchen table.

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

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

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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 there is the hardest part, so you have to take away any excuse for them to leave.

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

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I find auditioning to be a very illusive process, where actors come in with this really big result with no process, so it's a lie already at work.

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

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I find that more and more I'm trying to entertain myself when I'm working, because I know the work's going to go to a horrible place.

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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 putting them through that.

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

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

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

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

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You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off.

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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 clinging to the walls, you might think it was your family's turn to host the month neighborhood potluck supper.

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It was like losing an important weight-bearing bone, and I knew I would spend the rest of my life trying to figure out how to walk the streets without it.

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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 challenge because it overwhelms me.

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

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I suffer from and enjoy an incredibly vivid dream life. A lot of times there is a sort-of narrative and other times they are just funhouses of non-linear imagery and other scary stuff.

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

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