“What I’ve learned in the last few years is that I am merely a storyteller.”

I try not to write more than two or three, I try to just write one if possible

I think after we ingest some of the cruelty of the world, it takes years off of our lives, but it also gives us wisdom and a little grace, hopefully a sense of compassion.

Sometimes when I’m directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that’s okay with me.

The same way you can hear a song in your head even if there isn’t a radio playing; the same way you can hear those blackbirds flying when they’re not in the sky

I don’t like it when it’s consumer advocacy, like how you should spend your $60. Great criticism is a kind of literature.

It just happens quicker and faster now.

If I tried to write that it would just be false. Or I’d have someone enter with a machine gun.

Snow settles in the liver. The bowels grow thick with humidity.

I feel that I’d rather know an actors’ work, or have an instinct about them and sit down and have coffee with them, or I’ll see them in something and I’ll see if I can get along with them in some way, shape, or form.

I’ve never really felt good at the parties, but I have enough friends now that I feel social, I used to feel very antisocial, but I think the theater helps.

I think I’m a little more daunted by when the machinery of the play is really huge.

I know that they want certain things and they’re in a certain room and they smell like this and they look like that.

So I started to think like, “well if I’m going to fight against this, I should learn how to direct”.

I’ll take a break for a couple weeks for a project that is paying me money like a television project which I try to stay away from just to stay financially ahead of the game.

The scent goes right to your stomach.

You don’t really develop feelings about a place till you’ve left it. It’s like a girl or a dog.

We have peace with Israel. We’re actually the last man standing. So there is going to be immense pressure and people asking,

Last night I’d made love to a woman for the first and last time. It had been amazing and I had a memory that would shape the rest of my life.

I understood that pain was real and sometimes things didn’t last. Sometimes you just had to enjoy it while it lasts and cherish it when it’s gone.

Every show that comes out that’s female driven is compared to the last female-driven show, as if it’s taking over.

As the Internet breaks down the last justifications for a professional class of politicians, it also builds up the tools for replacing them.

I’m always looking for something that’s versatile from the last.

Startups often win because it’s easier to see what comes next when you don’t have to worry about maintaining what came last.

I was last in Rome in AD 540 when it was full of Goths and their heavy horses. It has changed a great deal since then.