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.

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

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

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

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.

Confidence is the mark of a hopeful disposition.

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.