There's plenty of girlfriend roles out there. They've come my way, and many people have turned them down, and I think, "Oh maybe I could do something with this." 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.

There is not a lot of separation between work and home life.

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

The notion of fate and destiny is a very Greek concept. Working in the theater you do think a lot about that, because as a storyteller you do think, 'At what point was this always going to happen and what part have I got a hand in being able to change things?'

I'm not sitting on a soapbox telling women what they should and shouldn't do, but I know what works for me.

If I'm not good at acting, I'm not good at anything else.

Any industry loses its innovation and loses its access to creative juices if you don't have progressive thinking and diversity.