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

If the audience is made to do not enough work, they resent it without knowing it. Too much and they get lost. There's a perfect pace to be found. And a perfect place that is different for every line of the play.

Despite the digital age, there is a very large number of venues and spaces that are looking for plays, and many of them are looking for new plays.

What I love about a play is that it's such an investment because only time can create a lot of what happens onstage.

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.

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.

A good play puts the audience through a certain ordeal.

Even if the play is great, every day in theatre you have to question everything because the audience is new every day. I love that.

I think people need to understand that with plays and with cinema, when you hear about it, call and get a ticket then or go and see it then. It's especially with the play, which I can do because it's a limited run.

In the theater, when people hear that you're writing a play, they want to know what it's all about, whether there's a role for them. You write it fairly quickly, and it becomes a group activity before you're really ready to have company.