Quotes

The story wants to be told; it's just hunting around for a pen that is on paper.

It doesn't matter what I feel; it matters what the audience feels. However, if the angels descend and do touch you with something emotional in the moment, that can be useful for the performance. I wish the angels would descend more often with me, and I wish I wasn't quite so afraid of them.

Acting is a team sport. No actor is better than the person they are acting with, the text they are given, and the director who has prodded them towards their performance. Any actor who doesn't acknowledge this is kidding themselves.

I believe that the higher cause of all art is to reveal something that is beyond the factual truth of the world -- something that is a more poetic truth, a more human truth. Facts are cold; humans are messy.

I see it all the time in my work. I teach actors I try to prompt them, try to get them to lose their fear of that rage I see in so many of them. I tell them it's okay to give in to it, that the fire they are so afraid of will not, cannot, shall not consume them.

But I'm lying. My own chest contains a bomb. I am terrified of its power.