It's not the normal way to look at things but I experienced death at a really young age and because of that it's been part of my mental landscape that death is really very possible.

The first thing is to accept that theater is an unknown. If you go to a concert, you know the music. If you go to an art show, you can literally see the art on your phone before you see it in person. But with theater, often times people aren't prepared to take risks, even though that's exactly what's great about it.

What I find interesting is this ricochet effect, that the audience perceives the work and then does something with it, throws it back to the world, and there's an ongoing interaction between work and audience, which doesn't belong to the artist anymore - from the moment you release it, it doesn't belong to anybody.

When you're directing something, you absolutely have to be involved in all layers of the process.

Oftentimes you walk on set and then suddenly you're in bed with someone who you've never met before.

My kids don't watch any TV, but they watch videos and films. I'm sure they watch it at friends' houses.

It's interesting when you get those roles, which seem like nothing on the page, and you kind of subvert them. It's hard to say no.