When you think of how history is revealed, we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time, which turn out not to be so factual as time marches on.

The most evocative thing to me is probably when a writer and a group of performers can collectively put together something compelling that asks the really simple question: 'How do we live?'

Well, I design costumes because I started with the theater in Chicago, but somehow a few lines just sort of fell to me to do it. And I studied it in school and I always liked it.

It's not a gift of mine, but one given to me, to be able to criticise myself and not be crushed, by myself or by others.

To a certain extent in Hollywood you're a product, and your product is whatever sells the most, and whatever sells the most is whatever the public likes to see you do - if anything.

The projects I look for to produce or direct would not be ones in which I would want to act.

The world is ruled by violence, or at least the imminent threat of violence. It always has been.