I've never really felt good at the parties, but I have enough friends now that I feel social, I used to feel very antisocial, but I think the theater helps.

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".

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

Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.

I find that more and more I'm trying to entertain myself when I'm working, because I know the work's going to go to a horrible place.

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