I don't know anything about making movies. I'd never been on a film set. I'm really kind of an idiot when it comes to figuring out where objects are in space. If they're both moving, I can't do the math. If you ever see me driving down a road, go somewhere else quickly.

There's a way in which 'The Illusion' is a play about the theater.

I wish you would be more true to your demographic profile. Life is confusing enough.

As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people.

The theater requires an essential gullibility that you can't get through life without having. If all you can feel is skepticism-well , you meet people like this. Run away from them. They're not good people.

Theater really gets damaged when there is a paucity of good criticism around.

Broadway remains the closest thing we have to a national theatre, the place where the greatest number of people can potentially see new work. For an American playwright to say it doesn't matter is simply to capitulate to the current situation.