I learned a long time ago that place matters to me, on many levels, and maybe more than it should, but it is generally counter-productive for me to resist it.

I have two children and they're young yet but all of the children that I know really inspire me.

Do what you like to do so well that someone will pay you wages for it.

I'm very wary of news on television.

Performing in a live theater is absolutely unbeatable. It is something I have done my entire life and have a gift, it seems, for sharing thoughts live.

I went to public school in L.A., so I felt like I'd been in a coma for three years. I woke up, and moved to New York.

I was looking for projects, as you always are, and I read this scene . . . and I'm in the Hollywood Hills. So I thought, 'This is interesting.' You have this setup that seems to be based in some reality and you can only wonder where Black's going to go with this.