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".

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

When I'm directing, I'm pretty much not writing, but when I'm not directing I am writing a lot.

Sometimes when I'm directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that's okay with me.

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

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

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.