Does any art have a practical value? People love to talk about how expensive a painting is. That's the only way we can talk about paintings in this century.

The rich live hand-to-mouth too-just on a higher level.

I think that some of these plays are lost in this new horror called development, which is a place for dramaturgs to say "let me tell you what your play means," and the life gets sucked out of a play.

I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg. I believe in a theater where the director and the playwright work together to create what they need.

There's no such thing as a perfect play. Sometimes you have to protect the life of the play.

People rewrite the play so much to make it palatable to the audience, to make something clear, that they just deaden it. Like it was left it in the oven too long.

I don't think about taking a risk. I think about how far can I go. How can I make myself. What are the risks I must create.