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.

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

People realize that we're very good at sending people to war, but we're not good at taking care of them. And people are coming back from war now; years ago, they would have been killed, now they're wounded; and they're coming back alive and with post-traumatic stress. So, I think Americans are sensible enough to know we've got to figure out a way to take care of them.

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.

People who are sick, or who have been sick, or have come close to death have a lot to say - and they want you to hear it.

I never know when somebody's going to knock on the door of my own unconscious in a way that I wouldn't have anticipated.

That artists are called to be more responsible and 'true' is a tip of hat to their power.