If The End Is Right, It Justifies

The Last Collaborator Is Your Audience ... When The Audience Comes In, It Changes The Temperature Of What You've Written. Things That Seem To Work Well -- Work In A Sense Of Carry The Story Forward And Be Integral To The Piece -- Suddenly Become A Little Less Relevant Or A Little Less Functional Or A Little Overlong Or A Little Overweight Or A Little Whatever. And So You Start Reshaping From An Audience.

Music Is Structure Out Of Chaos

White. A Blank Page Or Canvas. So Many Possibilities.

I Don't Like The Word 'career'. When Somebody Says To Me, 'oh, You've Had Such A Wonderful Career', I Think, 'career - That's After You're Dead.' I Just Don't Think That Way.

In Not-for-profit Theater, You Don't Worry So Much About How The Audience Is Going To React. You Want To Make Them Absorb The Piece.