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

For me, first of all, I love people, I love ideas.

Some people study a text very deeply. The people are my text. I study their words and what their words sound like, over and over again.

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.

Many people are afraid to talk about race because it's so emotionally loaded. We don't have the vocabulary to talk about it. Every day, our vocabulary seems more and more inadequate.

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.

Artists are the people that no matter what, pick up the pen, pick up a paintbrush. They take the time to translate what is happening to create something that resonates deeply with the rest of the people that are caught in the middle of their own reality.