I want to experience a performance on all levels - I want goose bumps and I want to leave the movie or play arguing about something that's unresolved.

You have to stop yourself from even thinking about failing.

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

When I'm sculpting, I work with wood and clay, and though some say that an image is already in the material and the sculptor just has to discover it, I also believe you have an image in your head that you're trying to get to. So you're in a dialogue with the piece, a back-and-forth.

That's my policy - to be positive, to just hope that something will happen. If you start with all your fears, your receptivity is for the negative.

What I don't know for sure is what's next for me - and I don't mind that. I know for sure that whatever happens will be interesting and will challenge and excite me.

Americans in particular are myopic. They're not traveling as much. When you were a college student, the next thing you would do on graduation was to take a year off and travel. That's what I did. I went to Indonesia.