Storytelling helps us understand each other, translate the issues of our times, and the tools of theater and film can be powerful in helping young people to develop communication/collaboration skills, let alone improving their own confidence.

Its extremely dangerous to compare anyone else to Shakespeare.

Kids arent growing up with a sense of television as the aspirational place for their ideas.

Games are advancing in terms of storytelling and trying to create a character, and its a brand new audience for me.

Fundamentally, I like to accomplish things.

I feel it's a responsibility for anyone who breaks through a certain ceiling... to send the elevator back down and give others a helpful lift.

I liked it because it was such a dangerous script and showed just what human beings are capable of. Here was a movie in which Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt, who always win in every movie they ever do, simply don't win. I felt that was outrageous for a commercial movie.