I love studying how people are. Not just what they're saying, but how they are, what they're doing.

I think we need leadership that helps us remember that part of what we are about is caring about more than the person right next to us, but the folks across the way.

Even jealousy is based on fantasies: a fantasy that someone else has what belongs to you.

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.

People realize that we're very good at sending people to war, but we're not good at taking care of them. And people are coming back from war now; years ago, they would have been killed, now they're wounded; and they're coming back alive and with post-traumatic stress. So, I think Americans are sensible enough to know we've got to figure out a way to take care of them.

Racism has been for everyone like a horrible, tragic car crash, and we've all been heavily sedated from it. If we don't come into consciousness of this tragedy, there's going to be a violent awakening we don't want. The question is, can we wake up?

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.