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

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.

That artists are called to be more responsible and 'true' is a tip of hat to their power.

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.

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.

You hang around actors, or dancers, the minute you sneeze, everybody has a remedy, and we're all on a million different kinds of diets, and different kinds of things that we do for exercise.

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