I mean New York City is the financial capital of the world. It's where all the money passes through, the Dow Jones, whatever, that's where all the money goes.

I'm an American playwright. Tennessee Williams got in all our DNA.

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.

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.

The Atlantic Ocean was something then.

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?"

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