A performance can have amazing visuals and special effects, but it has to tell a good story, even if that story isn't original.

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.

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.

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.

Some people become dullards, but as children we are all creative. It's in the programming, the socialization, that we lose our sense of play.

Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.