People ask me all the time, "What are your influences? Are you trying to do Beckett?" It's like, "No, I'm trying to do me." Whatever that is. I don't know what that is, but that's the basis. I'm trying to be true and I'm trying to be honest.

I'm not a celebrity. I'm intentionally and defiantly not a celebrity. I don't have any interest in it. I don't have any talent for it. I keep my personal life out of my public life as cleanly as I can.

I choose to write characters from the inside because I feel like that's the way I'm gonna get the most honest version of them.

There's theater in life, obviously, and there's life in theater.

I think dreams are metaphors. Everything you do in writing is metaphorical. So it seems like the same arena to me.

I think directing and writing are very different jobs. Obviously, directing is a more social and managerial job. The other thing about directing is that it's a very, very pragmatic job, and writing isn't.

The end is built into the beginning.