“I'm not sure plays tell people anything. I think plays include an audi...” — Anna D. Shapiro Quote

I'm not sure plays tell people anything. I think plays include an audience in an experience that is happening in that moment, and that's the specialness. What people take away has almost as much to do with what they bring as what we do.

I just feel like, for whatever reason, female playwrights don't really ask me to do their plays. Nothing would make me happier than finding the sisterhood, but I can't make them.

I would love to figure out a way to be less careful and more adventurous.

Theater, for me, is no longer a conversation about how we destroy each other; it's much more about how we may be destroying everyone else.

I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.

I'd like for 'Facts of Life' to include more stories about Mrs. Garrett. But I wouldn't want to do a spin-off built around her.

I think the worst and most insidious procrastination for me is research. I will be looking for some bit of fact or figure to include in the novel, and before I know, I've wasted an entire morning delving into that subject matter without a word written.

To tell your story, you have to include others.

Film is like sculpture, writing, acting, technical arts, all sorts of arts. And that's why I wanted to do it for so long, because it would include so many places for attention.