I've had male executives say that my lead character was unlikable because she slept with a lot of guys.

Americans in particular are myopic. They're not traveling as much. When you were a college student, the next thing you would do on graduation was to take a year off and travel. That's what I did. I went to Indonesia.

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.

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

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

One of the reasons I love to jump back and forth between mediums is that film does allow me to be more literal. I can go to the real place. I can go to the Coliseum, and I don't have to fake it.

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.