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" My theater is slow and calm, yet my life is fast and hectic, going in all directions. "

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" If you take a Baroque commode and put a Baroque clock on top of it, maybe it is not so interesting as when you put a computer on top of it. Then you see both items in a new way. "

" I think it's just my nature. I can't work on one thing. I have to work on many things. "

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" I think that in my plays you can come in for 20 minutes and get something out of it. I'd like to do a play that would run for days. I don't think time is that important. Nature doesn't hurry the sky, the changing clouds and sunsets. "

" There hasn't been a great romance in my life. "

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" We're so afraid to lose the audience. Let the audience go. "

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