I don't like the actors to work together beforehand. I trust my intuition, and I like when the actors are the same.
It's an incredible privilege to be able to sit in front of a computer and spend a few hours just thinking and writing.
The liveness of theater, and the excitement of experiencing it alongside an audience, is something you can't get at home. That makes the theater more vital than ever. It's definitely expensive, but I have faith that the market will keep recognizing the live experience as a valuable and important one.
I'm a sucker for double meanings in titles.
The real skill of being a writer is being able to take your inspired moments, and make them work as a whole, through the unromantic, daily hard work.
There's so much great stuff out there. The artists who've been most formative to me are the ones I've had the privilege to work with over the years.
I love writing stories about regular people dealing with life's biggest questions.
"You ought to be ashamed," a woman in an Easter bonnet told Stein. "Your race gave us our religion. . . " "From ancient polytheism, the belief in lots of gods," the woman continued a little more eruditely, "the Hebrew nation led us on to the idea that there is only one. " "Which is just a step from the truth," said Stein.
Perception of a state is not the state.
Why then should witless man so much misweene That nothing is but that which he hath seene?
I take it personal when people don't double me. It's against my religion not to double me. It upsets me. It makes me think they're saying to themselves I don't have it anymore.