I see myself first and foremost as a student of expression.

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.

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.

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.

Self-esteem does not come from surrounding yourself with people and things that seem to increase your value. Real self-esteem is an integration of an inner-value with things in the world around you.

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

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.