Richard: I didn't write that and I don't think I signed it. It wasn't passed by me. My lawyer hasn't seen it.

Q: Is it real to you?

Richard: It begs a lot of questions. What is real? My interest in the piece is that it calls into question all of our assumptions about perception and what is out there. Even in the simple sense of being in this room. what is across the table. What is the table? What is out here? How does that happen. It's all based on the content of your mind and your heart what is out there. It's not a definitive thing. It's very fluid thing, this thing called reality.

Q: It wasn't just the character you found intriguing?

Richard: No. It was the piece itself. When I first read the script years ago, it was going through a development process to arrive at this balance of different elements it has, it was just a great read. It has a great narrative drive to it. You wonder what's going on. What's next? How does it end? On a simple narrative level, it functioned well.