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

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

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

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 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 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.

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