My work is always more emotional than I am. My characters say things to each other that I get accused of not being able to say to my girlfriend.

Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.

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 think I'm a little more daunted by when the machinery of the play is really huge.

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

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

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.