A multivalent culture is an amazing place to be writing theatre.

A wedding is for daughters and fathers. The mothers all dress up, trying to look like young women. But a wedding is for a father and daughter. They stop being married to each other on that day.

Theatre is, at its roots, some very brave people mutually consenting to a make believe world, with nothing but language to rest on.

Art is a way of freezing time, or extending time. ... It's another way to bridge the gaps between us.

Have you ever been so melancholy, that you wanted to fit in the palm of your beloved's hand? And lie there, for fortnights, or decades, or the length of time between stars? In complete silence?

There's a word in Japanese for being sad in the springtime - a whole word for just being sad - about how pretty the flowers are and how soon they're going to die.

Catharsis isn’t a wound being excavated from childhood.

We all exist in relation to the world, our partners, the human race.

The director was only invented in the nineteenth century. So directors have only been around for 200 year,s and playwrights have been around since Sophocles and Euripides.

What I really value about being a writer is that I can go to rehearsal when I want to, and then, when I need to be at home writing or with my kids, I go home.

I always thought there would be more interesting people at my wedding.

Wherever I wander off to, when I draw, when I paint, I get my life back. I am lucky that I am an Artist.

To the sick while there is life there is hope.

You need to start behaving like the person you want to attract.

When one has to ask, "Am I really in love?" the answer is always "No".

War is the most extraordinary, extreme human experience.

Filmmaking is always about keeping the right distance, and it's always a struggle. You struggle for more access. It's a little bit of a seduction process, trying to get more access.

None of us really know where we're going.

The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs.

Worship does not become worship until it changes the way we live

I could be a jerk and get a lot more publicity, but that's not who I am.