“There’s something exciting about that free fall, but then my life gets really screwed up.”

One of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them leave.

If it weren’t for the smell of death clinging to the walls, you might think it was your family’s turn to host the month neighborhood potluck supper.

I’ve never really felt that I’ve had the right hair cut, or had the right clothes.

I write till the end at least a draft of a play or a novel; but sometimes,

I’m pretty obsessive-compulsive and I’m very fast.

I began stealing a lot of ideas from other directors I had worked with.

I don’t know where the characters are going to go or what’s going to happen.

I find that more and more I’m trying to entertain myself when I’m working, because I know the work’s going to go to a horrible place.

It was like losing an important weight-bearing bone, and I knew I would spend the rest of my life trying to figure out how to walk the streets without it.

I don’t know if I have the ability to write an ending like My Fair Lady’s, when everyone gets what they want after a few minor conflicts.

The stakes are so high just for someone to make a simple exit.

And you can’t go anywhere in the sky unless you have a plane or some kind of rocket.

I’ve written some criticism, and I really enjoy it because I think it’s important for people to know that theatre is vital.

I suffer from and enjoy an incredibly vivid dream life. A lot of times there is a sort-of narrative and other times they are just funhouses of non-linear imagery and other scary stuff.

My characters say things to each other that I get accused of not being able to say to my girlfriend.

But when I’m writing I am just a big, irresponsible mess and I’m just impossible to get in touch with, and I don’t spend time with friends.

Drawing Dead is a brilliant noir from one of Australia’s most exciting new novelists.

Tie my handlebars to the stars so I stay on track & if my intentions stray I’ll wrench them away,then I’ll take my leave & I won’t even look back

That’s like the really fun, exciting thing about wrestling. There’s no such thing as perfecting this art.

Coming up with something new and original is so exciting.

You’re constantly growing and you’re constantly progressing and changing up you’re style and gauging an audience to make sure that audience is enjoying what you’re doing.

So if everything goes off great, then it being a triple threat match will make it even more exciting instead of a singles match.

On top of that, creatively, if we are able to make something that’s really exciting for the fans, any time there are more bodies in the ring

What’s clear – and exciting – is that communication for social change is growing.