Theatre Quotes

My process is that I will read the play a couple of times and then not do anything until I've spoken with the director, because, of course, there are 500 different ways a play can look--and still honor every word that's in those stage directions. I don't want to think about how it works until I know what the director is interested in, and if the playwright is around, what they're thinking about as they've written it. Then I go away and do my research.

Don't think you're funny. It'll never work if you think you're funny.

We've put a man on the moon. If you miss a cue, no one will die.

The theatre is a spiritual and social X-ray of its time.

It's not enough to have talent, you have to have a talent for your talent.

The most important thing you can teach actors is to understand plays.

People often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them 'all of my life.'

The mission of the playwright is to look in his heart and write, to write whatever concerns him at the moment; to write with passion and conviction. Of course the measure of the man will be the measure of the play.

I don't make mistakes, I have unintentional improvisations.