I'm not a poet. I wish I was a poet but I'm not. I'm a playwright. And so I have a different set of antecedents.

My whole life has conspired to bring me to this place, and I can’t despise my whole life.

I go into any movie that's historical fiction thinking, 'OK, I'm here to watch a work of art, something delivering a series of opinions, and if it's a good work of art, these opinions become so deeply embedded in complexity and richness that I won't even be bothered by the opinions. I'll make my own mind up.'

The work of artists is to find what's humanly possible - possibility's furthest reaches.

The fear of a work becoming dated is one of the most effective tools for keeping people from writing political work.

Don't be afraid; people are so afraid; don't be afraid to live in the raw wind, naked, alone...Learn at least this: What you are capable of. Let nothing stand in your way.

I'm a sort of political person, and I feel that there's a kind of ineradicably political dimension to theater, to all theater, whether it's overtly political or not.