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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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Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.

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

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

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

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

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In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever. The stakes are so high just for someone to make a simple exit. And now we have all this access to public transportation, automobiles and jets and the Internet; we're so easily distracted, but the world is still designed to destroy you. It just happens quicker and faster now.

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My work is always more emotional than I am. My characters say things to each other that I get accused of not being able to say to my girlfriend.

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

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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 don't mind him not talking so much, because you can hear his voice in your heart; the same way you can hear a song in your head even if there isn't a radio playing; the same way you can hear those blackbirds flying when they're not in the sky

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