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 some of our most talented people are not going to pick the arts as a way that they're going to spend their lives.

A lot of acting techniques are very self-oriented.

We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric.

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

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.

People who are sick, or who have been sick, or have come close to death have a lot to say - and they want you to hear it.