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I think that theater is a unique way to communicate with people as they gather together with other people they may not even know. It creates a sense of shared community for the time of the performance that hopefully carries over into other aspects of the audience's life because they have shared this experience together.

It's communication - that's what theatre is all about.

To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you're always trying to understand character and motives.

In our own, theatre can be the place where we come together, reaching with and through stories, to who we are and to who we can be.

Theatre is about the collective imagination... Everything I use on-stage is driven by the subject matter and what you might call the text - but that text can be anything, from a fragment of movement or music to something you see on a TV.

It took me a long time to realize that you have to have a bit of an interlanguage with actors. You have to give them something that they can act with.

The language of film is further and further away from the language of theater and is closer to music. It's abstract but still narrative.

Theater represents to me this phenomenon in juxtaposition to real life, where there are all these imposed guidelines.

Theater is a space where you cross over from everyday life, because there are real people in that moment moving in front of you - you're being invited to believe in a story and cross that bridge.