I’ve never really felt that I’ve had the right hair cut, or had the right clothes.
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So I started to think like, “well if I’m going to fight against this, I should learn how to direct”.
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I show up on time, I am very rigorous about scheduling, and I am very focused.
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Sometimes when I’m directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that’s okay with me.
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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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In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever.
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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.
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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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I appreciate good criticism and I think it’s really important.
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I feel that I am just a storyteller, and whether I am wearing the director hat or the playwright hat, it doesn’t matter.
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The scent goes right to your stomach.
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I tend to not write for a long period of time until I can’t not write, and then I write first drafts in gallops.
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I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers.
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My characters say things to each other that I get accused of not being able to say to my girlfriend.
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I would hope that the staffs at juvenile detention centers and reform schools are carefully chosen so that there is a community of support and hope.
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I try not to write more than two or three, I try to just write one if possible
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You don’t really develop feelings about a place till you’ve left it. It’s like a girl or a dog.
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Snow settles in the liver. The bowels grow thick with humidity.
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I imagine a soul is a little perfect crystal egg floating in your chest.
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I’ve written some criticism, and I really enjoy it because I think it’s important for people to know that theatre is vital.
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There’s something exciting about that free fall, but then my life gets really screwed up.
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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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A typical day for me is I’m writing when I’m not directing.
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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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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.
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More often than not, an entropy creeps in that strangles me, and then the inevitable happens.
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I grew up eating hamburger helper, macaroni and cheese, and drinking lots of milk, and looked at lots of cows; but I feel like a New Yorker now, I’ve lived here for sixteen years.
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