What people can survive and what they don't survive is shocking to me. Someone can go to Iraq and be blown to bits and survive. Someone can trip and fall on the street and they die - that's that.

The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.

What I hope in my ideal world is that with each project, I'll either get to work with a really great script that would force me to grow, or work with a really great actor who will make me better.

When you're dying, you're liberated to do what you want to do. You give yourself permission. I think everyone's experience with a terminal disease is so deeply personal and unique to the person, the context in which they're living and the relationships that they have.

History's a resource.

I love actors, regardless of where they are in their skill level. There's something terribly satisfying about working with someone who's really learning.

What I love about a play is that it's such an investment because only time can create a lot of what happens onstage.