I would have started writing a lot earlier if I hadn't been [Arthur Miller's daughter].

I've always been fascinated by the way that children and animals suffer stoically in a way that I don't think adults do.

Nobody is so weird others can't identify with them.

I was interested in the mystical element of humor - was humor part of creation? Is God laughing at us, or with us?

You work with each individual actor as you perceive their needs to be. It's something that you've figured out in the weeks of pre-production.

I do think it is a kind of illness in the sense that it sets you apart, it injects you with an endless, unslakable thirst to keep making the thing. The artist has to voluntarily use themselves endlessly.

I was trained to look at colour, edges, to see negative space. I honestly think my greatest influence as a writer is from Cubism - the idea of a multi-faceted, multi-perspective way of looking at things.