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I imagine a soul is a little perfect crystal egg floating in your chest.
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You can’t run forever.
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For some reason it made me want to curl up in the fetal position. I could have slept right there on their kitchen table.
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A typical day for me is I’m writing when I’m not directing.
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Day Directing Typical Writing
I don’t like the sort of hierarchical, totalitarian type of room a lot of directors can find themselves in.
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I know that something inevitable will happen.
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Happen Inevitable Something Will
There’s only so much pavement that the road makers lay down. After a while, the highway quits going north and it just turns into sky.
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I know that they want certain things and they’re in a certain room and they smell like this and they look like that.
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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.
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Big Friend Impossible Irresponsible Mess Spend Time Touch Writing
You have to escape to survive, as you must survive to escape.
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Escape Much Survive You
I write till the end at least a draft of a play or a novel; but sometimes,
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Draft End Novel Play Sometimes Till Write
I don’t put big concepts on my work, and it’s all often about keeping actors in a room together and not letting them leave.
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Actor Concept Keeping Often Room Together Work
The rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic and the best idea wins.
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Best Democratic Idea Pretty Room Tend Win Winning
I don’t know where the characters are going to go or what’s going to happen.
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Character Gun Happen Writing
Sometimes when I’m directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that’s okay with me.
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Directing Good Idea Manager Okay Sometimes Stage
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.
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Ability Conflict Ending Everyone Fair Minor Write
I try not to write more than two or three, I try to just write one if possible
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Couple Game More Possible Three Try Two Writing
You want the tension to escalate. Keeping them there is the hardest part, so you have to take away any excuse for them to leave.
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Escalate Excuse Hardest Keep Keeping Leave Part Tension
It’s strange, people have asked me what my schedule is and what is my process like, and I can’t even answer it.
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Answer Asked People Process Schedule Strange
If I tried to write that it would just be false. Or I’d have someone enter with a machine gun.
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Enter Flash Gun Machine Someone Tried
You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off.
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Always Count Country Cutting Leg Time
Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs.
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Congeal Ice Lung Spiderweb Stomach
I think I’m a little more daunted by when the machinery of the play is really huge.
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Daunted Huge Little Machinery Play Really Thinking
I’m pretty obsessive-compulsive and I’m very fast.
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Criticism is really unevenly distributed in this town.
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Criticism Distributed Really Town Unevenly
Snow settles in the liver. The bowels grow thick with humidity.
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Bowel Grow Humidity Liver Settle Snow Thick
When I’m directing, I’m pretty much not writing, but when I’m not directing I am writing a lot.
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Directing Lot Much Pretty Writing

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