Some people study a text very deeply. The people are my text. I study their words and what their words sound like, over and over again.

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

For me, first of all, I love people, I love ideas.

Probably the person who said the only color in Los Angeles is green was right.

You hang around actors, or dancers, the minute you sneeze, everybody has a remedy, and we're all on a million different kinds of diets, and different kinds of things that we do for exercise.

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.

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.