“'The Cherry Orchard' is a masterpiece, and there can never be too many...” — Stephen Karam Quote

'The Cherry Orchard' is a masterpiece, and there can never be too many adaptations.

I'm drawn to writers with skill sets I don't have.

To be honest, it's more fun being the underdog.

I like going absurd pretty quickly. You don't waste any time when you're doing theater of the ridiculous.

I don't know how to produce work if it's not something that's deeply scaring me or troubling me.

Adaptation seems to be, to a substantial extent, a process of reallocating your attention.

Adaptations are fun for me because they connect to the idea of filmmaking I had when I was a kid. I would see a movie and think: 'I'm gonna make that movie.'

Characters, conflict and geography are things that must be considered while making movies from adaptations.

A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate imposes on them. Movie adaptations of these monumental fictions often fail because they become mere exercises in interior decoration.