I feel that I am just a storyteller, and whether I am wearing the director hat or the playwright hat, it doesn't matter.

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.

In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever. The stakes are so high just for someone to make a simple exit. And now we have all this access to public transportation, automobiles and jets and the Internet; we're so easily distracted, but the world is still designed to destroy you. It just happens quicker and faster now.

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

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 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.

What I've learned in the last few years is that I am merely a storyteller.