As a director you come in and tell the actors how good they are.

I realized, "Oh my god, this is an enormous play. And it's almost all me. Big. big chunks of speeches, speeches, speeches." And I started to panic.

If you work hard, you have a better chance of producing something that you're proud of. If you don't, you won't. It's really simple.

Any performer would love to have the opportunity to be able to express themselves in many different areas. If you feel confident in those areas, you would hope to have the opportunity to do them, whether it's drama, comedy, musical, or whatever your interests are.

We've been trained since kindergarten: Be nice, be kind, share, put on a smile. So we're conditioned to squash our natural selfish instincts, and that's the right thing for society.

Every experience feeds an actor, and I've learned that depression is all around us.

Any kind of civil rights oppression is wrong.