At the end of the day, storytelling is actually very simple in its origin as long as there are people who want to tell stories and there are people who want to hear them.

When I look around at Broadway and the West End, theatre is becoming an exclusive club.

It's the kind of democratization of the Internet that has led to the breaking down of barriers into the creative arts.

I've been intrigued by politics my whole life. And, yes, I am very close to the Clintons. I was a Hillary person until I was an Obama person. And she was a Hillary person, too, until she was an Obama one, evidently.

I mean we all played as kids. You play games, you take on different characters, you imitate; the fun and the love of play has never left me.

I dont even think in terms of ambition.

Its extremely dangerous to compare anyone else to Shakespeare.