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

I've been living in Portland for five months and I'm not sure how I feel about it. I probably won't really know for years because that's how it works right? You don't really develop feelings about a place till you've left it. It's like a girl or a dog.

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

It's been hard for me to not write, and that's the only process I can speak to I guess, it's so compulsive and I need to do it all the time that sometimes I make myself not do it so I can actually tend to my life.

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.

I had a sort of bad experiences as a playwright early on, when directors were putting in huge concepts that I didn't intend, or they were stylizing something that was compromising the play, so I started to think like, "well if I'm going to fight against this, I should learn how to direct".

I think I'm a little more daunted by when the machinery of the play is really huge.