I don’t like the sort of hierarchical, totalitarian type of room a lot of directors can find themselves in.
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The stakes are so high just for someone to make a simple exit.
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Mary’s house smelled like lemon furniture polish and oatmeal cookies and logs in a fireplace.
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One of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them leave.
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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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More often than not, an entropy creeps in that strangles me, and then the inevitable happens.
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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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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
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I find auditioning to be a very illusive process, where actors come in with this really big result with no process, so it’s a lie already at work.
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I don’t like it when it’s consumer advocacy, like how you should spend your $60. Great criticism is a kind of literature.
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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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I don’t know where the characters are going to go or what’s going to happen.
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I think auditioning can be very reductive and I just hate how actors work really hard and most of them aren’t going to get the job, and I hate putting them through that.
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And now we have all this access to public transportation, automobiles and jets and the Internet
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Snow settles in the liver. The bowels grow thick with humidity.
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