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

What I don't have in theater is editing.

My mother was okay with me not playing it safe. She made an agreement with my father that I was going to be raised differently than my brother and sister were. My parents went through the whole sixties rebellion with my brother and sister. But I didn't feel like I had to rebel because I didn't have anyone telling me I couldn't do something. I never went into that parents-as-enemies stage.

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.

I use cinematic things in a theatrical way on stage, and in film I use theatrical techniques in a cinematic way.

You know, I went to Oberlin. At that time, grades were - you elected to have them or not. It was all of that era where grades were out the window. But I did very well in school. I didn't really study the arts; I practiced the arts.

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