To those who voted for me, thank you. And to those who didn't, better luck next year!

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.

I'm not focused on what other people think of me.

Becoming artistic directors is an enormous responsibility and not one that we take lightly.

I do tend to move on anyway. This is a part of my life, but it doesn't rule my life.

I think part of the disappointing failure of the political process in America today is that it's asking us to forget countries' historic connections to other countries, or to the laws that have been made. They're willfully asking people to forget their country's history, and focus only on the present. It's bizarre.

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.