The trite answer is that everything is true but none of it happened. It is emotionally true, but the events, the plotting, the narrative, isn't true of my life, though I've experienced most of the emotions experienced by the characters in the play.

Well, you just know, as a writer, I didn't really write one of the five best screenplays of the year. There were lots of brilliant screenplays; I was just one of the lucky ones who got nominated.

Always when I directed the play, I was always trying to cast people not who were necessarily like the characters, but people who I felt had the essential component that the character had, some kind of soul for it.

Lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off. But it's better if you do.

A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.

Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.

Alice: I don’t love you anymore. Goodbye. Dan: Since when? Alice: Now. Just now.