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.

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.

My life has been in shambles, like my personal relationships, my laundry, paying bills now I have someone who pays my bills and it's always been a challenge because it overwhelms me.

When I kicked in the first TV – a nineteen-inch Magnavox with wicker speaker panels – it felt like the most perfect thing I had done in a long time. And there's nothing like the feeling of perfection that will inspire repeated behavior.

I think, for me, when I direct my own work it's just an extension of the authorship.

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

Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature. It becomes a kind of personal weather system. Snow settles in the liver. The bowels grow thick with humidity. Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs. The heart fills with warm rain that turns to mist and evaporates through a colder artery.