Look, at the end of the day people have to respect people's differences. I am different than some people would like me to be.

Whether thats positive or not, people are talking about the Old Vic Theater again with passion and commitment and controversy and debate.

We're all victims of our own hubris at times.

There are times when you do a play when you are living in the character over a two-and-a-half-hour period or longer, and you come to the end of the night, and you can feel like you were hit by a truck.

Im attracted to things that are challenging and fun and interesting, and it certainly seems that audiences enjoy them as well.

If you wanna compete, youve got to get into the original content game.

The characters created cannot just be a mouthpiece for the writer. When you look at a piece of writing, and it's genuine and it doesn't feel like every character is just a mouthpiece for the writer, but that they've been created in such a way that they're expressing an idea that a writer wants to get across, that's when a story succeeds.