You Cannot Write To Resonate

Sometimes You Have To Protect The Life Of The Play. It Seems Like Spelling Out Mysterious, Musical Details Can Destroy A Play By Making The Motivations Too Clear, Too Simplex.

What I Hate About Kitchen-sink Dramas Is [this Idea] That The Set Is Real, Therefore You're Going To Be Seeing Truth. You Have To Earn Truth. Truth Can't Be A Part Of The Fact That People Appear To Talk That Way And Live In That Room. You're Looking For The Poetry In Something, And I Don't Mean Poetry In The Fancy Sense. Naturalism Believes By Just Replicating A Thing You Give The Truth, Rather Than Earning The Truth.

The Imagination Says Listen To Me. I Am Your Darkest Voice. I Am Your 4 A.m. Voice. I Am The Voice That Wakes You Up And Says This Is What I'm Afraid Of. Do Not Listen To Me At Your Peril.... The Imagination Is Not Our Escape. On The Contrary, The Imagination Is The Place We Are All Trying To Get To.

Oh, I Never Use A Seat Belt. I Don't Believe In Gravity.

The Power Of The Past To Still Dominate Our Thinking Today.