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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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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.

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A typical day for me is I'm writing when I'm not directing.

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I've never really felt that I've had the right hair cut, or had the right clothes.

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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 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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The rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic and the best idea wins.

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When it's just a few scenes and a couple of actors behaving in a room, I feel very confident with that.

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

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Whenever I've been in rehearsals, it's really fun, there's always laughing.

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I think because my brother was an actor and I just saw how he struggled through, I guess I'm sensitive to it.

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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 mind him not talking so much, because you can hear his voice in your heart; 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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When I kicked in the first TV a nineteen-inch Magnavox with wicker speaker panels it felt like the most perfect thing I had done in a long time. And there's nothing like the feeling of perfection that will inspire repeated behavior.

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In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever. The stakes are so high just for someone to make a simple exit. And now we have all this access to public transportation, automobiles and jets and the Internet; we're so easily distracted, but the world is still designed to destroy you. It just happens quicker and faster now.

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I appreciate good criticism and I think it's really important. I don't like it when it's consumer advocacy, like how you should spend your $60. Great criticism is a kind of literature. I've written some criticism, and I really enjoy it because I think it's important for people to know that theatre is vital. Criticism is really unevenly distributed in this town. Obviously the power of the Times is discouraging. It's killing new plays, demolishing one after another.

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You can't run forever. 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. And you can't go anywhere in the sky unless you have a plane or some kind of rocket.

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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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I imagine a soul is a little perfect crystal egg floating in your chest. Somewhere deeper than where they put your heart. Somewhere so deep inside that the doctors can't find it with all their machines and microcameras.

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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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