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.

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

I have never had a problem with people not being able to understand the words and the meanings in Titus.

It's how you tell the story that makes it new. That's what artists do. They let us look at the world from a different perspective. They let us look at birds in a way that makes us never see birds again in the same way. That's why I don't think computers are healthy for kids. They're too literal. You pop a button and a bluebird comes out. You pop another button and you can take the color blue and shove it into the outline of the bluebird.

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

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.

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.