Now, when I started my theater, the modus operandi was having the actors stare right into the audience.

I was enchanted by the escape into that meticulous world that seemed real yet not... well, it seemed not real, but very detailed and meticulous, bizarre.

I realized that I had to be honest about where I was, where I was coming from, and what I was trying to do.

Now, when I started my theater, the modus operandi was having the actors stare right into the audience.

There is no work of art that has ever been made that is absolutely truthful about life.

What really happened was one day I decided to write a new kind of play.

Because even at the age of fifteen, I used to go see all the Broadway shows and feel that they were sentimental, that they were pandering to the audience and trying to manipulate the audience. I had no use for practically any of the shows that were hits.