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"If I wasn't in the theater, I would be a hermit."
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"I did loads of student films and fringe theatre. I worked for free a lot."
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"I'm trying to bring a new generation into the musical theater and to create a new audience."
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"I feel like I've been marinated in Australian theatre."
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"I did theater at Carnegie, and in Pittsburgh and New York."
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"I'm from the theater. I never wanted to be a star."
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"I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre."
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"All of a sudden Kevin told me that the movie got bought and was gonna be shown in a movie theatre. I was shocked. I was psyched. It was just weird."
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"Musical theatre is something I'm familiar with, I've been doing that."
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"I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it."
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"I am a nationalist... my native soil is the theatre."
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"Which implies that the real issue in art is the audience's response. Now I claim that when I make things, I don't care about the audience's response, I'm making them for myself. But I'm making them for myself as audience, because I want to wake myself up."
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"You know, actually, I went to Yale because I wanted to stay out of the army."
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"One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience."
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"My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization."
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"I was enchanted by the escape into that meticulous world that seemed real yet not... well, it seemed not real, but very detailed and meticulous, bizarre."
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"Because even at the age of fifteen, I used to go see all the Broadway shows and feel that they were sentimental, that they were pandering to the audience and trying to manipulate the audience. I had no use for practically any of the shows that were hits."
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"All the dialogue on tape, and we'd play the tape in performance. Then I thought it'd be interesting if the actor's repeated what they heard on the tape, but at a slower speed, so we'd get a web of language."
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"As I told you, from the time I was fifteen, I thought the theater was too much involved with actors trying to make the audience love them, being over emotional."
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"If I wasn't in the theater, I would be a hermit."
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"So I decided to start writing plays, and went to Yale."
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