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

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

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.

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.

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

I try not to write more than two or three, I try to just write one if possible, I write till the end at least a draft of a play or a novel; but sometimes, I'll take a break for a couple weeks for a project that is paying me money like a television project which I try to stay away from just to stay financially ahead of the game.

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.