Art is a way of freezing time, or extending time. ... It's another way to bridge the gaps between us.

There's a word in Japanese for being sad in the springtime - a whole word for just being sad - about how pretty the flowers are and how soon they're going to die.

Art is a way of freezing time, or extending time. ... It's another way to bridge the gaps between us.

Being dead is the most airtight defense of one's own aesthetic.

I don't read a word that's written about me. I don't read my own interviews. I don't read reviews. I think it would drive me insane.

It was important to me that people know that you can make plays and raise children at the same time - for other mothers, for other parents, for other women considering having children and who want to be working and thinking and contemplating and making things while they're raising children.

In America I think it's much more full of disruption culturally; it's much more mysterious how we inherit culture here. We grab it where we can find it - we're insatiable - and there can be a sense here that it's not available to you as readily as it is in other cultures.