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I am a firm believer that a good plot makes for a fun enough read, but it's not what binds us. If we don't care about the characters, we won't care - not in a lasting way - about what's happening to them.

It's hard to write a good play because it's hard to structure a plot. If you can think of it off the top of your head, so can the audience.

I think if you're writing a play, it should be its own end game; you'll never get to do a good one unless you know it's not a blueprint for a film; you're not going to get the action right and the story right.

Considerations of plot do a great deal of heavy lifting when it comes to long-form narrative - readers will overlook the most ham-fisted prose if only a writer can make them long to know what happens next.

I think that ultimately any effective drama or tragedy tries to put you as much as it can into the protagonist's shoes.

A good play puts the audience through a certain ordeal.

The play is one of the very few pieces of great dramatic and comic writing that I have read in a long, long time. I was drawn to it because of the power of the writing, which gives me the actor a chance to explore many facets of myself.

It's always appealing to play a character that has to overcome himself as well as an obstacle. It makes the drama so much deeper.

Often my characters don't know what the issues of the play are. They think they're doing one thing, but something else is actually orchestrating their lives.