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A play is not a play until it's performed, and unless it's a one-person play that is acted, directed and designed by the author, many other people will be deeply involved in the complicated process that leads to its performance.

After you do a play like 'The Normal Heart,' it's hard to find something you feel so passionate about.

Play is the work of childhood.

I think what helps me when I'm working on a play, any play, is the degree to which the writer has truly visualized, and then fulfilled, the vision of the world that he or she is creating.

Doing a play is so fulfilling. Words cannot describe how I feel when I finish doing a play.

A good play puts the audience through a certain ordeal.

Plays are about understanding what happens, what it means. If we just leaned into the story, for lack of a better word, it would still be a powerful story but, like delight, it might disappear an hour after you saw it.

Passion moves freely across borders, speaks every language, and flourishes in every culture. The movement of passion is the most gratifying satisfaction in any moviemaker's life.

Plays are always about intense relationships, whether they're intense love relationships or family relationships or existential relationships.