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" I make my life with New York stage actors, and I love them. They're the best actors on planet earth. "

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" I think it goes without saying that young would-be playwrights in developmental workshops should be so lucky as to write plays as good as 'Waiting for Godot,' 'Uncle Vanya' or 'King Lear,' none of which would have existed without a decent plot. "

" There are times when I wonder how I ever thought that I could dramatize the death of a national discussion as a family comedy. "

" Theater is a public space. It is a spectacular space. It is a gathering place. "

" I often find it maddening to live in America, in a way that is both amusing and horrifying to me. America clings to versions of itself that are absolutely hypocritical. I can't shake my outrage at it, so I write about it. "

" I have huge admiration for Jesus Christ and for his incredible compassion for all people. "

" Some of my family goes back a long way in Denver. "

" It's not my responsibility to write plays about the way the world should be. "

" My son is a musician who next year will be attending the LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts in New York City, which his mother helped him get into by making him practice all the time. "

" A lot of times, I think people feel that new plays are suspect, and actually, I don't know where that came from. I completely disagree with it! "

" I have always worked consistently, even in small ways and even in smaller theaters where I'll do One Acts or something. "

" The myth that theater isn't for everybody is total nonsense. In the 18th and 19th centuries, everybody in America used to go to the theater all the time. The shows they went to see were big, crazy melodramas that had careening storylines and houses burning down and pretty girls in danger and comedy and death and destruction. "

" Nothing sounds as crazy as telling people you're not crazy. "

" I was born and raised in the Midwest, where people were taught that decency and integrity and community were all important values. We were democrats with a little 'd.' "

" I am curious about a lot of things. I'm perplexed and engaged. "

" I think, with most writers, their neurosis is finishing things. I have a different neurosis. I'm terribly anxious when it's not finished. Then I become really difficult to live with. "

" We need theatre that is contemporary, lively and relevant, and the only way to do that is to take care of our playwrights and produce their plays. "

" I like working with television. I do. "

" I think we have a cultural difficulty with looking at our problems. "

" Does art have to have high foot traffic to get funded in a recession? A lot of people, I am sure, would say absolutely not. And those postmodern art-loving loners surely would argue that even if one person likes a piece of art, that would make a museum worthwhile. "

" I would rather work in the theater than anywhere else, and it does seem to be a place where stories can and should be told purely. "

" Why is it so hard for men to identify with women as fellow travelers on this good Earth? "

" I think it's straight men who are oblivious to goodness or badness to dates. That's probably unfair. Maybe they just don't complain as much. "

" I sincerely believe that for the New York theatre to remain relevant, all our major producing institutions should be presenting new American plays. "

" I have spent my whole life working in the theater, and most of the people I know have done the same. And we are pretty interesting people. "

" I have a dog whose name is Banquo. "

" The ridiculous way that workplace politics are conducted completely gets in the way of excellence in America. "

" I actually think we should be trying to be rigorous in our thinking about television and the way it enters our lives and shapes the way so many people think. "

" Everyone pays lip service to this whole idea of doing more new plays, and nobody ever does it. "

" We were told that hard work and talent and character would get you somewhere. At school, we learned it was important to share. On Arbor Day, we all planted trees. "

" Spielberg read the 'Understudy' and decided that was the voice he wanted to write 'Smash.' He wanted a story that had humanity and humor and high-stakes dreams. "