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

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I try not to write more than two or three, I try to just write one if possible, I write till the end at least a draft of a play or a novel; but sometimes, I'll take a break for a couple weeks for a project that is paying me money like a television project which I try to stay away from just to stay financially ahead of the game.

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

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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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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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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 sometimes I make myself not do it so I can actually tend to my life.

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The rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic and the best idea wins.

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

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

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

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

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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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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. And there's nothing like the feeling of perfection that will inspire repeated behavior.

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We only have so much time.... Time will kill you it really will.

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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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