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.

I think there is a lot of continuity between the Jewish and the Islamic traditions. We know this historically, though people don't want to talk about that - especially Muslims. There is a common source for both Judaism and Islam, or let's say that Islam finds its source in Judaism. The commonalities of practice and sensibility, ethos and mythos, create a lot of overlap.

I don't have an ideal reader. I'm trying to reach something simple and, I believe, universal, in every single person.

I don't want to test that simple sense of being human. I don't want to transform it.

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

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

I have no interest in problematizing things. So what I am writing to is that simple sense of being human in myself.