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

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

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.

I started to understand that for me, art was no longer about self-expression but about creative engagement with the world. I started to respond in an excited way to making work inside an industry and not feeling the constraints of audience expectation as some kind of thing that I should avoid.

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

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

I can't be a spokesman for anything other than my own concerns. I have to be free to wrestle with my own preoccupations, and if I'm bringing any political awareness to that process, that mitigates my freedom.