I'm sure there are some good dramaturgs but I've never worked with one.

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.

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.

How much of your life can you account for? My life is a collage of unaccounted for brush strokes; I am all random”.

I believe that the imagination is the passport we create to take us into the real world. I believe the imagination is another phrase for what is most uniquely us.

People go to see beautiful paintings to see how much they cost. Wow. The practical value is that it shows you what the human spirit can do.

You can't be a sort of pioneer.