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

I don't like the sort of hierarchical, totalitarian type of room a lot of directors can find themselves in.

I think because my brother was an actor and I just saw how he struggled through, I guess I'm sensitive to it.

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

I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers.

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

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".