There is such a reluctance to address sex as an inherent part of the human experience in this country... The true perversion to me is crushing it and hiding it.

I love when a director says, "I don't know."

Ibsen, Chekhov, Shakespeare, and Beckett to me are the most revolutionary.

I know what it's like to audition, so it's important that everybody who auditions, even if I know right off they're not right for it, has a good experience. So I'll never just have someone do one pass at it and say "Thank you".

Kids' literature now is dystopian, you know.

Nature is a series of murders.

We spend so much of our early lives trying to figure out who we really are. And we spend the rest of our lives preparing ourselves to let it go.