The director was only invented in the nineteenth century. So directors have only been around for 200 year,s and playwrights have been around since Sophocles and Euripides.

Being dead is the most airtight defense of one's own aesthetic.

It's a privilege to have kids and not live your life in solitude. But we live in a child-hating culture.

Art is a way of freezing time, or extending time. ... It's another way to bridge the gaps between us.

Catharsis isn’t a wound being excavated from childhood.

I would never be essentialist about sexuality and structure, but I do think there's a way in which this male-arc has been talked about as the only structure, and kind of a stand-in for even the word structure, instead of looking at other forms.

We all exist in relation to the world, our partners, the human race.