In theater, the playwright is the boss, period. The decisions will go through him or her. In movies, the writer is pretty far down on the list.

A certain giving up of control is good for the soul.

If you feel like you're in control of everything, and then things aren't going well, you feel like you're failing.

Thank God we can't tell the future. We'd never get out of bed.

I never know what the hell I'm writing about, I never know what the next thing I'm writing about is, I never have a plan.

I mean there’s a certain finality about a movie, when it’s done it’s done – that raised eyebrow in that moment will always be that raised eyebrow. Whereas a play only lives as a blueprint for a performance on any given night. There’s a reason you can eat popcorn and watch a movie and you can’t do that in the theatre. Theatre you have to lean in, you have to tune your ear to the stage and participateI respond to heat. And blood. And humanity. The cold experience is not for me. I’ve always enjoyed all the real people in a room together in the theatre.

Time wounds all heals.