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.

I find auditioning to be a very illusive process, where actors come in with this really big result with no process, so it's a lie already at work.

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

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

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

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

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.