Hollywood is geared toward teenage idiocy.

For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don't have these essentials, you might as well be writing a theoretical essay, not a play.

It's funny, in a way the actor is a writer. It's not like the two things are so separate as to be like apples and oranges. The writer and the actor are one.

Ideas emerge from plays, not the other way around.

[Rewriting is] a whole other art form; it's about craftsmanship.

I feel very lucky and privileged to be a writer. I feel lucky in the sense that I can branch out into prose and tell different kinds of stories and stuff. But being a writer is so great because youre literally not dependent on anybody.

There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the way things cross over.