When you're doing a play, you don't always have a practical world that you're working off of. You have to create it for yourself.
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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.
The complexity of the emotional life of the play is what you live to work on.
Doing a play is so fulfilling. Words cannot describe how I feel when I finish doing a play.
A play is much easier to maintain your personal life with because if you're rehearsing, you're working like from 11 to 6 or 11 to 5 and you get to have your whole morning and your whole evening. When you're doing the play, you have all day.
It's not my responsibility to write plays about the way the world should be.
Play is the exultation of the possible.
If I play, I try to concentrate on producing my best.
The conversation of how you do a play is my favorite conversation in the whole wide world: what a play is, why it's different than anything else, the math of the way that human behavior has to be calibrated theatrically versus anything else.
If you get anything creative going, then the work and play thing is the same thing, I feel.
You write a play mostly out of yourself. There's a need to get a certain thing down.
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