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.

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

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.

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.

Limitations force you to find the essence of what you want to say, which is one of the most important things to know for an artist.

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

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.