Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.

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'm interested when things are upside down - because there are so many possibilities in that one moment. There is a lot that is exposed.

Listening is not just hearing what someone tells you word for word. You have to listen with a heart. I don't want that to sound touchy-feely; it is not. It is very hard work.

I think as a kid I always liked to listen to people. I loved hearing stories.

Suddenly in high school, I'm in a predominantly Jewish atmosphere. Jewish people were my gate to white America.

You've heard that old expression from Shakespeare, 'Just speak the speech'? The words themselves will take you to the reality of the character. And so this led me to interview people.