I'd rather play in front of a full house than an empty crowd
Love is a luxury. It's something that people are allowed to indulge in when they're not simply trying to survive and keep other people alive.
Writing is my obsession, my passion. My relationship with it is one of the most complex and agonizing and richly vexing that I have in my life.
Don't shame the young for releasing their pent-up fear.
I am deeply Catholic and always will be, but I'm no longer a member of the church. I left in 2003 because of the sex abuse scandal.
I'm a writer of faith. I was raised Catholic, and I have a deeply Catholic imagination.
I write across genres so I see them, more often, as complementary instead of separated by boundaries.
Animated films are so precisely engineered - right down to forming lines of dialogue with words pulled from several different takes - how do you translate that spontaneity from the live-action to the digital realm?
This is crazier and louder than I was prepared for. With every week, the fervour and anticipation seem to grow. People know my name and ambush me in public and try to figure out what hotel I'm staying at and ask me to bite them and want to touch my hair.
It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars.
You don’t know what’s going to happen in the end, and that’s what the best plays are.