You cannot write to resonate twenty or thirty or forty years from now. You only can write for that very day, but whatever happens is all gravy.

What I hate about kitchen-sink dramas is [this idea] that the set is real, therefore you're going to be seeing truth. You have to earn truth. Truth can't be a part of the fact that people appear to talk that way and live in that room. You're looking for the poetry in something, and I don't mean poetry in the fancy sense. Naturalism believes by just replicating a thing you give the truth, rather than earning the truth.

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?"

You can't kind of take away, you either do or you don't. If you kind of take away something you're a failure.

Show business offers more solid promises than Catholicism.

I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner.

Does the New York City Ballet affect other places? Yeah, it lets people know they should come to New York.