Yeah, I have the detail-obsessed, controlling personality of a novelist, but I somehow ended up writing plays.

I was a very self-righteous 15-25 year old. Anyway, I wake up every morning and thank God I'm not a kid anymore.

I was raised by a single psychologist mother and we spent every evening sitting at the kitchen table and dissecting our emotions and speculating about the inner life of everyone we knew.

I never had a lot of ideas. I always have exactly one that is the next project; the idea of a project beyond that project is ludicrous.

I'm terrible at speaking extemporaneously about my work - I get completely tongue-tied and consumed with fear.

I think growing up in a small town, the kind of people I met in my small town, they still haunt me. I find myself writing about them over and over again.

Film can express things that computers never will. Film is a series of photographs separated by split seconds of darkness. Film is light and shadow.

I don't enjoy hearing the sound of my voice. The most important things for me are impossible to articulate extemporaneously.

There are certain early plays of mine that I really don't like, but I can't imagine going back and fixing them. I would be totally incapable of it. I'm not in the head of the characters anymore.

If anything, I was the opposite of most college students who think they can do anything.

Writing is my primary way of expressing myself.

The moment you stop chasing happiness, you become happy.

Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.

I zipped myself all the way into the sleeping bag of myself, not because I was hurt, and not because I had broken something, but because they were cracking up.

I have a responsibility to lead, in more ways than one, and I take that very seriously.

Canada can be tough for urban music.

There's a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.

Life turned out much better than I thought. I knew after a little while that I could act.

Rather than someone that i can't take my eyes off, I want to find someone that I can't take my heart off

My favorite TV show is probably 'Glee.' I'm a Gleek, like everyone else!

The future is not there waiting for us. We create it by the power of imagination.