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.

Making your life is ultimately an extraordinarily creative endeavor.

I think some of our most talented people are not going to pick the arts as a way that they're going to spend their lives.

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.

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.

Then everyone leaves, and you are left, each night, to your own devices with a crowd of interesting people - most of whom you don't know - sitting in the dark.