If you decide to do Hamlet in a funny hat staged in a ruined factory, it doesn't make you Shakespeare.

I write drama in the English language. If I wasn't working in London I'd be doing something wrong.

You just have to know what you want and what you're doing and it leads to a kind of general well-being, which I think you sensed when you were there.

Without English art, I never would have understood myself, my own family, or the New England world I lived in.

I think that gambling is a synthetic experience and that if you have any balls you gamble with your life. I have. So can everybody else.

Whatever you cut when there's no deadline isn't really a cut. You're just pushing colors around.

You never know what people are going to go and see.