Quotes from Eric Bogosian

I provide the bricks and mortar with the words and situations - the director and the actors and the designers build the house.

There is nothing more boring than people who love you.

It's a mental fake-out to myself. I make believe I'm making a new show so I forget the material I was working on and make up some fresh material.

I don't know anybody who does what I do. I'm very underground.

I'm very underground.

I'm not a light-hearted person, so I can't think light-hearted at work.

I'm always surprised by things that happen to my work.

I love playing other people's work. I love acting.

I do write about people who are complex and are striving with something and can't quite get past their own stuff, which would be a proxy for myself because that's what the deal is with me.

If we all knew we were going to live to be 150 years old, we'd all approach our lives very differently.

If you say city to people, people have no problem thinking of the city as rife with problematic, screwed-up people, but if you say suburbs - and I'm not the first person to say this, it's been said over and over again in literature - there's a sense of normalcy.

As soon as the dirt is hitting the casket, it'll all be forgotten.