I don't like to be disparaging about my past roles. That's the only taboo that I don't like to cross.

When you call someone and ask them to do something they've never done before, in different mediums I think they would be inclined to pass because they're afraid of the risk. But the creative people who populate the theater world love the challenge of new things.

Our culture's adjustment to the epistemology of television is by now all but complete; we have so thoroughly accepted its definitions of truth, knowledge and reality that irrelevance seems to us to be filled with import, and incoherence seems eminently sane. And if some of our institutions seem not to fit the template of the times, why it is they and not the template, that seem to us disordered and strange.

I’m a nerdy, geeky fan of Labyrinth and Dark Crystal.

I'm lucky that people believe me when I'm in character.

I enjoy being a hyphenate. I've always thought of my career as a plate spinner in the circus.

When you have twin four-year-olds, you are able to dance like a fool, often. And I do.