Many people are afraid to talk about race because it's so emotionally loaded. We don't have the vocabulary to talk about it. Every day, our vocabulary seems more and more inadequate.

Discipline — both mental and physical — is crucial.

I am not myself; I am the potential of myself.

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.

I see myself as not a typical theater person, but a person who uses the theater as a place to meet people and explore ideas.

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

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