Adaptability is the simple secret of survival.

I'm preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that's coming up in New York City.

There is real beauty in my eyes when I lose my mind.

My identity is linked to my grandmother, who's pure Filipino, as pure as you can probably get. And that shaped my imagination. So that's how I identify.

Life is not simple, and people can't be boxed into being either heroes or villains.

There were also horror shows on the radio. Very terrifying and thrilling to me as a kid. They had all these creepy sound effects. They would come on at ten o'clock at night, and I just would scare myself to death.

[On The Philippines:] ... eighty dialects and languages are spoken; we are a fragmented nation of loyal believers, divided by blood feuds and controlled by the Church.