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.

Confidence is the mark of a hopeful disposition.

I feel like my work has been my path to freedom from having grown up in a segregated environment.

We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric.

A lot of acting techniques are very self-oriented.

I think some of our most talented people are not going to pick the arts as a way that they're going to spend their lives.

Listening is not just hearing what someone tells you word for word. You have to listen with a heart. I don't want that to sound touchy-feely; it is not. It is very hard work.