I never had a lot of ideas. I always have exactly one that is the next project; the idea of a project beyond that project is ludicrous.

I feel like there's an obsession with pace right now in theater, with things being very fast and very witty and very loud, and I think we're all so freaked out about theater keeping audiences interested because everybody's so freaked out about theater becoming irrelevant.

Yeah, I have the detail-obsessed, controlling personality of a novelist, but I somehow ended up writing plays.

Writing is my primary way of expressing myself.

Film can express things that computers never will. Film is a series of photographs separated by split seconds of darkness. Film is light and shadow.

If anything, I was the opposite of most college students who think they can do anything.

I ended up becoming a playwright because you can be grammatically incorrect: people speaking in bad poetry or people attempting to speak well and sometimes succeeding and sometimes failing. The whole imperfection of it suddenly felt freeing to me.