In real life we don't know what's going to happen next. So how can you be that way on a stage? Being alive to the possibility of not knowing exactly how everything is going to happen next - if you can find places to have that happen onstage, it can resonate with an experience of living.

Hollywood is geared toward teenage idiocy.

I don't want to be a playwright, I want to be a rock and roll star.

It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.

This isn't champagne anymore. We went through the champagne a long time ago. This is serious stuff. The days of champagne are long gone.

I'm a writer. The more I act, the more resistance I have to it. If you accept work in a movie, you accept to be entrapped for a certain part of time, but you know you're getting out. I'm also earning enough to keep my horses, buying some time to write.

The words I overuse are all adverbs.