You have to stop yourself from even thinking about failing.

I am, to be quite honest, sick of hero stories.

In a way, artists are shamans, facilitators who take what's there, channel it through themselves, then put it out there for people to appreciate.

When I was growing up, there were a lot more arts in the public schools. Politically, America has screwed up on that.

Some of my ideas for film or theater come to me in dreams. I'm also very creative when I'm talking to others. I believe in collaboration.

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

Going to the Far East was my first eye-opener to a world vastly different from my own. Then when I was 16 I lived in Paris for a year and studied mime. At 21 I went to Indonesia. I had planned to go for three months, but I stayed four years. I just got lost in the culture.