I'm entitled to my political opinions, and I get to vote because I'm an American.

Cultivate a love of skill. Learn theatrical skills. They will give you continual pleasure, self-confidence, and link you to fifty thousand years of the history of our profession.

We all die in the end, but there's no reason to die in the middle.

The job of the artist, is to say, wait a second, everything that we have thought is wrong. Let's re-examine it.

It's hard to write a good play because it's hard to structure a plot. If you can think of it off the top of your head, so can the audience.

There's something in me that just wants to create dialogue.

You know, I once read an interesting book which said that, uh, most people lost in the wilds, they, they die of shame. Yeah, see, they die of shame. 'What did I do wrong? How could I have gotten myself into this?' And so they sit there and they... die. Because they didn't do the one thing that would save their lives. Thinking.