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

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Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature. It becomes a kind of personal weather system. Snow settles in the liver. The bowels grow thick with humidity. Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs. The heart fills with warm rain that turns to mist and evaporates through a colder artery.

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

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

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

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