The Work Of The Director

You Don't Know What Life Is. You Know Nothing.

The Government, For Example, Has Determined That Black People (somehow) Have Fewer Abilities Than White People, And, So, Must Be Given Certain Preferences. Anyone Acquainted With Both Black And White People Knows This Assessment Is Not Only Absurd But Monstrous. And Yet It Is The Law.

They Say The Definition Of Ambivalence Is Watching Your Mother-in-law Drive Over A Cliff In Your New Cadillac.

Many Players Will Not Improve Because They Cannot Bear Self-knowledge.

Anyone Can Write Five People Trapped In A Snowstorm. The Question Is How You Get Them Into The Snowstorm. It's Hard To Write A Good Play Because It's Hard To Structure A Plot. If You Can Think Of It Off The Top Of Your Head, So Can The Audience. To Think Of A Plot That Is, As Aristotle Says, Surprising And Yet Inevitable, Is A Lot, Lot, Lot Of Work.