I don't know what it's like to be Jewish, but I suspect there is some aspect of that: being Jewish is the thing that bonds you as opposed to being Jewish from Poland, or Jewish from Hungary.

Religion has been an important part of my understanding, my inquiry into what it means to be human.

I think that literary forms are losing their capacity to connect people to issues, to the experiences that feel most meaningful to them.

I don't feel that as an artist my job is to offer PR propaganda, whether for the good or for the bad.

I feel like that religions generally ask the biggest questions. They may not always have the best answers, but they're the zone of human activity that regularly asks the biggest questions.

I'm a storyteller. I feel like the issue of discourse is an important one because there's a lot of political and ideological discourse that goes around, and we relate to that on an intellectual level.

If you want to really deeply touch the viewer or the reader, the theater might be the most powerful way to do it.