I think as a kid I always liked to listen to people. I loved hearing stories.

Even jealousy is based on fantasies: a fantasy that someone else has what belongs to you.

I am lucky: I have fantastic doctors and a fantastic dentist.

I see myself as not a typical theater person, but a person who uses the theater as a place to meet people and explore ideas.

When I was a kid, my grandfather said that "if you say a word often enough, it becomes you." Thinking of that later in life gave me this idea that I could try to become America by learning the words of people from many aspects of the country.

My work is about giving voice to the unheard, and reiterating the voice of the heard in such a way that you question, or re-examine, what is the truth.

Some people study a text very deeply. The people are my text. I study their words and what their words sound like, over and over again.