We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible.
People shouldn't trust artists and they shouldn't trust art. Part of the fun...
In a way film and television are in the same sort of traumatic trance that...
The kind of theater that I do is sort of 'narrative realism ' which I think...
There's a kind of a fundamental irresponsibility in playwriting and the...
I feel there's a power in theatre but it's an indirect power. It's like the...
You have a strange relationship with calamity when you're a writer: you write...
I don't feel finally that my politics are entirely determined by the fact...
Artists know that diligence counts as much if not more as inspiration in...
I write plays and movies I live and work at the borderline between word and...
As much as I hate his movies Oliver Stone has an aspiration I admire and...
You don't go to the movies to do historical research unless it's historical...
The way that same-sex marriage should reach the federal level is that it...
If you know that life is basically going to be horrendously difficult at...
You have to have hope. It's irresponsible to give false hope which I think a...
Gay writers now have both a sense of history and the fables that allows them...
A handful of works in history have had a direct impact on social policy: one...
The general consensus among historians among the ones who can handle the...
Accuracy is paramount in every detail of a work of history. Here's my rule:...
I'm happy that I feel a little less out of place in filmmaking than I once...
I find writing very difficult. It's hard and it hurts sometimes and it's...
Making movies is a very different experience in a lot of ways. It's difficult...
Who knows better than artists how much ugliness there is on the way to beauty...
