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.

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

If I wasn't in the theater, I would be a hermit.

Now, when I started my theater, the modus operandi was having the actors stare right into the audience.

Because even at the age of fifteen, I used to go see all the Broadway shows and feel that they were sentimental, that they were pandering to the audience and trying to manipulate the audience. I had no use for practically any of the shows that were hits.

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.

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