There's something about a catharsis that is very important.

I grew up with a house full of dogs. My mother was a great nature lover and taught us to have almost a religious sense of respect for the natural world.

Good live theater disturbs molecules. You create an energy source around yourself and it alternates between you and the audience. Anybody who sees live theater should come out a little rearranged.

Taking power away from a man is a dangerous thing. Someone always pays.

I think having pets helps sensitize people to the natural world.

And when you're with a great crew like we had, it becomes a thrilling, again, collaboration, which is to me one of the great aspects of the process that you go through. I find myself at this point in my career, getting potentially, incredibly bored if I stand around a lot, so that's why I really like the pace of television.

Ismail Merchant was just the most seductive, passionate, outrageous, driven, genius of a man.