For all the boredom the straight life brings, it's not too bad.

The things that inform student culture are created and controlled by the unseen culture, the sociological aspects of our climbing culture, our 'me' generation, our yuppie culture, our SUVs, or, you know, shopping culture, our war culture.

A lot of times, you're not necessarily off the page because you haven't been able to take the time to prepare a character. It's very easy to find even great actors reading it more like a reading. Things aren't really coming alive yet, even though you know they will.

When you get to be 23, 24 or 25, you start to freeze up and become an adult.

My department is to get actors to do stuff.

There is a common theme, though, in the stories I have told, which are usually associations of characters or families that are formed outside of a family circle.

Everything's changing so fast that it's sometimes hard to keep up.