I've been trying to figure out for at least the last 10 years how to force myself into something more risky.

I acted in junior high in the junior high school group, and then when I got into senior high I was, you know, the main actor of the senior high school.

As I told you, from the time I was fifteen, I thought the theater was too much involved with actors trying to make the audience love them, being over emotional.

My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization.

One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.

I've been trying to figure out for at least the last 10 years how to force myself into something more risky.

I was enchanted by the escape into that meticulous world that seemed real yet not... well, it seemed not real, but very detailed and meticulous, bizarre.