Theatre is the safe place to do the unsafe things that need to be done.

dear god, whose name i do not know. thank you for my life. i forgot... how BIG... thank you. thank you for my life.

Everything is painful, so why not be honest about the pain?

Trying to lead an interesting life, a fruitful life, is a big challenge.

I am not a courageous person by nature. I have simply discovered that, at certain key moments in this life, you must find courage in yourself, in order to move forward and live. It is like a muscle and it must be exercised, first a little, and then more and more. All the really exciting things possible during the course of a lifetime require a little more courage than we currently have. A deep breath and a leap.

Doubt requires more courage than conviction does, and more energy; because conviction is a resting place and doubt is infinite – it is a passionate exercise. You may come out of my play uncertain. You may want to be sure. Look down on that feeling. We’ve got to learn to live with a full measure of uncertainty. There is no last word. That’s the silence under the chatter of our time.

When I write a screenplay - and I think this is true for a lot of people - you direct the movie. Thats what writing a screenplay is.