Learning how to die is therefore learning how to live.

Sometimes I have a great day of filming and sometimes the theater strikes me better. It just depends.

Success isn't what makes you happy. It really isn't. Success is doing what makes you happy and doing good work and hopefully having a fruitful life. If I've felt like I've done good work, that makes me happy. The success part of it is all gravy.

There’s a period of time in your life when I kind of look back, and I’m like, was I happy, or was I just not aware?

I don't get nervous when I'm directing a play. It's not like acting.

No one wants to be pretentious about what they do or take it seriously, because that is just weird.

There's something in the very small minutia of life that tells us something about the big, big picture that we see every day all over the place, and so I think the more specific and creative and revelatory you are in the micro, the more powerful the macro will be.