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

Somewhere deeper than where they put your heart.

I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers.

It’s been hard for me to not write, and that’s the only process I can speak to I guess, it’s so compulsive and I need to do it all the time that sometimes I make myself not do it so I can actually tend to my life.

I won’t eat right. I forget to do my laundry. I have a dog now, and I have to remember to walk him.

I dont see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can.

More often than not, an entropy creeps in that strangles me, and then the inevitable happens.

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.

When I’m directing, I’m pretty much not writing, but when I’m not directing I am writing a lot.

You can’t run forever.

There must be some unwritten law that says about fifty people have to move into your house when somebody dies.

My life has been in shambles, like my personal relationships, my laundry, paying bills now I have someone who pays my bills and it’s always been a challenge because it overwhelms me.

I think, for me, when I direct my own work it’s just an extension of the authorship.

I don’t mind him not talking so much, because you can hear his voice in your heart

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.

And now we have all this access to public transportation, automobiles and jets and the Internet

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.

Especially last year in Ottawa, I had a whole section my grandpa got for all my family, and the skating club (supported me).

Your family immigrated to this country – whether they came over on the Mayflower or whether they came over on a raft last year.

Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.

Someone’s always calling for my resignation. It’s nothing new.

It’s something that’s been part of my tenure at Exodus over the last decade plus.

In the last two years, the Mexicans have detained nearly 400,000 migrants whose intent was to come to the United States.

Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year.

The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.