When it's just a few scenes and a couple of actors behaving in a room, I feel very confident with that.

When I am directing, it is much, much, much, much, much different. I'm a much more practical person in the world, I show up on time, I am very rigorous about scheduling, and I am very focused. But when I'm writing I am just a big, irresponsible mess and I'm just impossible to get in touch with, and I don't spend time with friends.

A typical day for me is I'm writing when I'm not directing.

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 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.

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

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