I grew up eating hamburger helper, macaroni and cheese, and drinking lots of milk, and looked at lots of cows; but I feel like a New Yorker now, I've lived here for sixteen years.

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 appreciate good criticism and I think it's really important. I don't like it when it's consumer advocacy, like how you should spend your $60. Great criticism is a kind of literature. I've written some criticism, and I really enjoy it because I think it's important for people to know that theatre is vital. Criticism is really unevenly distributed in this town. Obviously the power of the Times is discouraging. It's killing new plays, demolishing one after another.

I find auditioning to be a very illusive process, where actors come in with this really big result with no process, so it's a lie already at work.

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

You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off.

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