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Sometimes it's learning how the play wants to function rather than imposing something on it. For me, that's the thrill in directing.

There's no demand for a body of work, though writers will be criticized for not having produced one.

My writing was liberated once I abandoned acting.

Murderers don't even know that murder happens.

I never found a professional environment that made the production of plays efficient. Teamwork is demanded, but there are very few teams.

Choosing to write a play is some kind of surrender. I don't make an outline. I sit and work, and suddenly the door opens, and out it comes.

I get a sentence, an idea, an image, and I start. I don't know anything beyond it. I follow it.

Eddie: You don't have any feelings at all.
Phil: I don't have your feelings, Eddie; that's all. I have my own, they get me by.