Tracy Letts

“Listen to me: die after me, all right? I don't care what else you do, where you go, how you screw up your life, just... survive. Outlive me, please.”

“I'm just a Chicago actor who's a playwright. Even with the success of 'August,' the people in town who come to our theater know me by sight, because they've seen me onstage so much.”

“The window shades have all been removed. Nighttime is now free to encroach.”

“One of the things you hope you've done as a playwright is create roles that can sustain different interpretations.”

“When books and plays are made into movies, they frequently want to cut out the valleys and just show the peaks.”

“I like it when actors get an opportunity to chew into something. They love scenes with beginnings, middles, and ends - scenes that give an arc to their characters and allow audiences to get to know these people.”