Discipline — both mental and physical — is crucial.

Confidence is the mark of a hopeful disposition.

I would love to have been a documentary filmmaker; I just didn't have the resources to do that.

Those in the margins are always trying to get to the center, and those at the center, frequently in the name of tradition, are trying to keep the margins at a distance.

My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better.

Many people are afraid to talk about race because it's so emotionally loaded. We don't have the vocabulary to talk about it. Every day, our vocabulary seems more and more inadequate.

I happen to be a hopeaholic. I tend to look at problems as an opportunity to do some work.