You have to learn how to care about people without taking on all of their problems.

If there are no films or plays of interest to me, I don't go. I know how to go to a museum or a library or pick up a good magazine or I can watch the sun set. I know how to live. There's a whole creation out there full of magic and wonder to be explored.

I want people to see some of their own humanity no matter who they are.

There's all kinds of mothers, so to use the label 'mother' and to think you really understood all that a human being is because she's a mother, is a mistake.

I love theater. To have the people onstage right there, to be working in concert with other artists, this is a like a school of fish moving together.

If the playwright knew every little thing about his play, why bother? There must be discovery all the time, otherwise why bother to do it?

The stubbornness I had as a child has been transmitted into perseverance. I can let go but I don't give up. I don't beat myself up about negative things.