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In the first place, it must be remembered that our point of view in examining the construction of a play will not always coincide with that which we occupy in thinking of its whole dramatic effect.

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.

Nothing is more interesting in a novel or a play than an affair.

In reading plays, however, it should always be remembered that any play, however great, loses much when not seen in action.

Every play I write is about love and distance. And time. And from that we can get things like history.

The play is a marvelous form, but it demands less than a novel.

It'll be interesting to see if I ever have to play a typical, bland romantic interest. I'm quirky, and playing it kind of straight and bland doesn't interest me a whole lot.

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.

Anyone who is drawn in broad strokes either negatively or positively is generally not very interesting to play.

The great fun of doing new plays is that people have no idea what's going to happen next. That goes quite soon, as people start talking about it, and the only way you can keep hold of that is genuinely to keep changing it.