I grew up with a beautiful gold harp sitting in our living room. My older sister played it.

Creativity and the world of the imagination - the beauty of what we see as a child and the kind of play that we experience as a child - can be a way for us to survive tough times.

As a director, I never feel that I have the answers.

I had to drop a boulder to wake people up about the A.R.T. We've done that, and now we have audiences again who want cutting-edge work, who want to be challenged, but who also won't be falling asleep at the theater.

The idea of making audiences feel like they matter, that the theatre matters, and that they're a partner in the event—that's what fuels me as a director . . . I believe it's actually radical to think about the audience.

Creativity is a form of knowledge.

Im always interested in looking - historically - at how theater can animate history and how all of that can make us engage with our lives in an enriching way.