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

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

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

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

Sooner or later we've all got to confront the reality that we have got to come to understand who we are and what we're doing, and the extent to which we are guided or manipulated by forces that are beyond our control.