I've been living in Portland for five months and I'm not sure how I feel about it. I probably won't really know for years because that's how it works right? You don't really develop feelings about a place till you've left it. It's like a girl or a dog.

I feel that I am just a storyteller, and whether I am wearing the director hat or the playwright hat, it doesn't matter.

I dont see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can.

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

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.

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

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