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.

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

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.

You know, real artists, we expose our flaws. We long for intimacy.

I mean, I think a healthy country is a country where people are healthy physically, and a smart country is a country where people are educated.

Poverty makes it very difficult in an already competitive world for kids to get on a straight track where they can actually love learning.