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

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

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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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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.

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I think I'm a little more daunted by when the machinery of the play is really huge.

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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 helps.

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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.

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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 something that was compromising the play, so I started to think like, "well if I'm going to fight against this, I should learn how to direct".

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I don't know where the characters are going to go or what's going to happen. I know that something inevitable will happen. I know that they want certain things and they're in a certain room and they smell like this and they look like that. More often than not, an entropy creeps in that strangles me, and then the inevitable happens. I don't know if I have the ability to write an ending like My Fair Lady's, when everyone gets what they want after a few minor conflicts. If I tried to write that it would just be false. Or I'd have someone enter with a machine gun.

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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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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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It's strange, people have asked me what my schedule is and what is my process like, and I can't even answer it.

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

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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 the world, it takes years off of our lives, but it also gives us wisdom and a little grace, hopefully a sense of compassion.

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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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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 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 that the doctors can't find it with all their machines and microcameras.

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I've never really felt that I've had the right hair cut, or had the right clothes.

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