Probably the person who said the only color in Los Angeles is green was right.

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

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

Art simply can’t be stopped.

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 see myself as not a typical theater person, but a person who uses the theater as a place to meet people and explore ideas.

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