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I appreciate good criticism and I think it's really important. I don't like it when it's consumer advocacy, like how you should spend your $60. Great criticism is a kind of literature. I've written some criticism, and I really enjoy it because I think it's important for people to know that theatre is vital. Criticism is really unevenly distributed in this town. Obviously the power of the Times is discouraging. It's killing new plays, demolishing one after another.

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

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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 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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What I've learned in the last few years is that I am merely a storyteller.

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Man, that's the only kind of book I like one that's so real you want to find out everything there is to know about the person who wrote it, like how tall he is and what kind of music he likes and whether or not he really went through all the stuff he was writing about.

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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 like the sort of hierarchical, totalitarian type of room a lot of directors can find themselves in.

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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 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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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 into sky. And you can't go anywhere in the sky unless you have a plane or some kind of rocket.

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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 I'll see if I can get along with them in some way, shape, or form.

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Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.

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

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I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers.

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

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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 lived here for sixteen years.

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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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