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There's nothing like a play. It's so immediate and every performance is different. As an actor, you have the most control over what the audience is seeing.

I want to show audiences I can act.

So what's so enticing about doing a play is that you get to do that thing that got you into acting in the first place... There's a real attraction to being able to play, to just play. And that's something that theater affords you.

I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing.

People say, 'How can you stay in a play for a long time?' I say, 'The audience is never the same.'

As long as you have the acting chops and the desire to get inside a character, you can play anything.

Why do you act? You act for an audience. In the theatre, you're in their presence. Film stars don't know what it is to have an audience.

Nobody has yet proven that taking a chance and doing something unique that an audience isn't used to is a bad idea. What the theater lacks is that kind of courage.

I come from a tradition where the writer writes a play for the actors, rather than for himself, and the dialogue is made to work onstage, so it needs actors to help shape it. So you never get a play right straightaway.

The process of doing plays will make you an actor.