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.

Those in the margins are always trying to get to the center, and those at the center, frequently in the name of tradition, are trying to keep the margins at a distance.

I am interested in personal stories because that's when people become expressive, spontaneous and heartfelt.

We who are in the arts are at the risk of being in a popularity contest rather than a profession. If that fact causes you despair . . . pick another profession. Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities . . . We have to create our own standards of discipline.

I have never been in a violent movie or television show.

I remember from my father's funeral that the minister kept using a metaphor about life of a prism. And I took that away like a cherished image.

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.