I really prize and love great painting. It's so out of date now. It's slightly come back in.

I'm a fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife

I was in 20 Shakespearean plays by the time I was 20.

I look for every opportunity to mix comedy and horror and tragedy. I love catching audiences off-guard.

It's a very tough time for the playwright. Broadway has become almost a musical comedy theme park with all these long-running shows.

I'm always being asked to play roles or characters that I don't really resemble.

The problem is that people are pulling farther apart, rather than make an effort to get back together. There have been remarkable moments that united this country. It makes everyone feel relieved. Then because of economic stress, political shifts, we get wrenched apart again. I think it's cyclical. I am an optimist by nature. There are moments, the period after 9/11, the way we responded. The election of Barack Obama. There are moments where the country felt good about being American. I'm waiting for that to happen again.