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.

I am not myself; I am the potential of myself.

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

I was a mimic when I was a child. I mimicked the teacher and made friends that way, actually. That was a very subversive activity, because I was a goody-goody who never got in trouble. But if I went off in the corner and mimicked the teacher, people loved it.

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.

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

Somehow we can't live outside the politics of race. There's something very deep in all of us, that is taught to us when we are very, very little. Which is the disrespect and fear of the other.