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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hate the idea of sheltering kids from challenging books. It's just another form of conservative fear that promotes ignorance more than anything else.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I saw 'Six Degrees of Separation' because my brother was in it. It was a watershed experience. It was theatrical and scary, and New York functioned like a character. John Guare became a hero for me.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The biggest audience for Off Broadway is mostly coming in on a train - either Upper East Siders or Metro-North. I go to the theater, and everyone around me is over 50. How interested will they be in my kind of work?
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to write about teenagers because it's such an uncertain and dramatic time.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're poor, you don't want anyone to know you're poor.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Film directing has perfected my theater directing. I think when I first started directing, a lot of my stuff was very lateral; I was afraid to have the actors' backs turned away, afraid to put them too far upstage, and I think once I did more things with film, I got more interested in composition.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I work in the theater, you know you'll get this almost devotional, religious experience where you're breaking bread with everyone every day.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're making under-million-dollar films, it becomes so much about actors' availability. When you're using big actors for small films, you're in second or third position to the big monoliths.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a jock in college and high school, but I didn't hang out with the jocks. I was sort of a nerd who didn't look like a nerd. I never really fit into any social set.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have to be entertained by what I'm writing, so a lot of my stuff has a goofiness or scatological quality. If these characters can entertain me, then I feel like I can deal with the darker or more serious stuff.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love plays that have musical moments. I'm not a big fan of musicals per se, but I love straight plays that have musical edges to them. I don't know if I will ever be able to structure a musical, but 'Finer Noble Gases' is as close as I've gotten.
- Forget
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm pretty obsessive-compulsive, and I'm very fast. 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. I won't eat right. I forget to do my laundry.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I came to New York, I was really awkward. I went to military academy for high school, so I didn't have the socialization that most kids do. When I got here, I was five years behind everybody. Talking to women was weird for me.
- Emotional
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- Nov 07, 2020
My work is always more emotional than I am. My characters say things to each other that I get accused of not being able to say to my girlfriend.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Chicago, then I spent most of my youth in Joliet, Illinois which is about thirty minutes south, and I went to a military academy for high school in Wisconsin. Then I went to college, on a basketball scholarship to a small school in Iowa, so I'm like Mr. Midwest.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers. I feel that I am just a storyteller, and whether I am wearing the director hat or the playwright hat, it doesn't matter. And the rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic, and the best idea wins.
- Compromising
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a sort of bad experiences as a playwright early on, when directors were putting in huge concepts that I didn't intend, or they were stylizing something that was compromising the play, so I started to think like, 'Well if I'm going to fight against this, I should learn how to direct.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm directing, I'm pretty much not writing, but when I'm not directing I am writing a lot. It's strange: people have asked me what my schedule is and what is my process like, and I can't even answer it. I don't keep regular hours.
- Enjoy
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- Nov 07, 2020