That it should be the questions and shape of a life, its total complexity gathered, arranged, and considered, which matters in the end, not some stamp of salvation or damnation that disperses all the complexity into some unsatisfying little decision - the balancing of scales.

People shouldn't trust artists and they shouldn't trust art. Part of the fun of art is that it invites you to interpret it.

As much as I hate his movies, Oliver Stone has an aspiration I admire, and that is that he wants his art to be part of what makes and changes public policy and cultural practice.

I love musicals but it's very, very different. It's really just a different form than serious drama, and has very different rules and a completely different set of characters and requirements and ambitions. It maybe shouldn't be as separate as it is, but it's got a different history. In terms of serious drama, I think you'd have to say that you could break it down essentially into the narrative realist tradition and experimental theater.

You don't go to the movies to do historical research, unless it's historical research about the movies.

Gay TV has been immensely important in transforming American culture in a more gay-positive direction.

God knows I've had productions where there were actors in my plays who were making more money per week than I was.