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.
I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer.
When you hit a wall – of your own imagined limitations – just kick it in.
Love is the only disease that makes you feel better.
[Rewriting is] a whole other art form; it's about craftsmanship.
To sing a song is quite different than to write a poem. I'm not and never will be a novelist, but to write a novel is not the same thing as writing a play. There is a difference in form, but essentially what you're after is the same thing.