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.

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.

My work is about giving voice to the unheard, and reiterating the voice of the heard in such a way that you question, or re-examine, what is the truth.

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 not myself; I am the potential of myself.

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 think what I am is a "convener"; I like to convene people around ideas.