It's much easier to conjure characters strictly from your imagination than to have to think about whether you're representing people in a truthful way.

When you begin a play, you're going to have to spend a lot of time with those characters, so those characters are going to have to be rich enough that you want to take a very long journey with them. That's how I begin thinking about what I want to write about and who I want to write about.

I see procrastination and research as part of my artistic process.

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