Every scene should be able to answer three questions: "Who wants what from whom? What happens if they don't get it? Why now?"

If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm all criminals, and let them accidentally shoot themselves? Is this absurd? Yes, and yet the government, of course, is arming criminals.

Conservatives believe in smaller government and in the power of the electorate. So I think that we're less likely to try to use a dramatic forum to warp people's political views.

Every scene should be able to answer three questions: "Who wants what from whom? What happens if they don't get it? Why now?"

I'm greedy and ambitious like everybody else.

They have a desire to put on plays and to fulfill that traditional role of a theater in a community: to be the place where people go to hear the truth.

I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say you can get further with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word.