You Can't Be A Sort Of Pioneer.

I Think A Playwright Must Be His Own Dramaturg. I Believe In A Theater Where The Director And The Playwright Work Together To Create What They Need.

I Believe That The Imagination Is The Passport We Create To Take Us Into The Real World. I Believe The Imagination Is Another Phrase For What Is Most Uniquely Us.

There's No American Playwright After 1945 Who Wasn't Profoundly Affected - Who Didn't Have Their Dna Changed By Tennessee Williams.

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.

You Cannot Write To Resonate Twenty Or Thirty Or Forty Years From Now. You Only Can Write For That Very Day, But Whatever Happens Is All Gravy.