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

The one thing that all great cities have in common is that they are all different

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.

Art civilizes us and it connects us and activates us. And so it's really important to connect with compassion, with stories about people who are different from us.

I have the embarrassing thing where often if you're watching a film, you kind of go through the emotions and the thought stages that your character went through, but you sort of do it with Tourette's. So I end up often crying when I'm crying, and looking angry when I'm looking angry, so it's pretty ugly.

Planning cities is a necessary but risky business.

For me, I think the bigger something is, the more difficult it is to make it nimble and fleet afoot.