I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators "the haute couture of language."

I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators "the haute couture of language."

A lot of acting techniques are very self-oriented.

Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.

The individuals inside are frequently fighting that their individual voices be heard, while the walls of the place, which are the mask, and the perception, are reluctant to give over to the voices of the individuals. Those in the margins are always trying to get to the center, and those at the center, frequently in the name of tradition, are trying to keep the margins at a distance. Part of the identity of a place is the tension between those in the margins, and those in the center, and they all live behind the walls which wear the tradition.

I feel like my work has been my path to freedom from having grown up in a segregated environment.

I never know when somebody's going to knock on the door of my own unconscious in a way that I wouldn't have anticipated.