Every play is so important. It's a record of what life was like at the time you wrote that play or that book.

What we're dealt with hopefully is two arms, two eyes, two legs, a head, a heart. The variations, the extensions, the possibilities of the human body, what that can do

The great risk is always saying, "how will I communicate what I'm trying to get across to a room full of strangers sitting in the dark watching a stage?"

James Joyce wrote the definitive work about Dublin while he was living in Switzerland. We're all where we come from. We all have our roots.

Eugene O'Neil created an American theater, and Tennessee Williams taught it how to sing.

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.

Every play is so important. It's a record of what life was like at the time you wrote that play or that book.