I'm a firm believer in the idea that theater excels over film and TV in its ability to let people play with poetry.

I really do believe that if you don't challenge yourself and risk failing, that it's not interesting.

One of the reasons I love to jump back and forth between mediums is that film does allow me to be more literal. I can go to the real place. I can go to the Coliseum, and I don't have to fake it.

When we were kids, you picked up a little paper and put it on a stick; and when you waved it back and forth, you understood the power of air underneath the wings. In that way, a child begins to understand abstraction, poetry, metaphor, symbolism. You play with the materials you have and use your imagination to make them into something else. That what's so sad about having everything on a little screen - it's not physical and dimensional, and that seems backward.

I call myself a playmaker sometimes - but that's just a word. I don't feel like I have to have a title or a job description.

Creativity is a gift, but if you don't know how to use it you might not even know it's there. There's a lot of creativity in the air, but it's meaningless if you're not open to receiving it.

It's people who are repressed and cannot express their fears that are dangerous.