I'm interested when things are upside down - because there are so many possibilities in that one moment. There is a lot that is exposed.

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.

Suddenly in high school, I'm in a predominantly Jewish atmosphere. Jewish people were my gate to white America.

A lot of acting techniques are very self-oriented.

If you say a word often enough it becomes you.

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.

The American idea is as promising, imaginative, and full of the unexpected as the land itself. The land represents freedom - the frontier, the ability to make a new future with your own bare hands.