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I spent my whole childhood looking for an escape.

Theater opened up a whole new world for me. It was a freedom I'd never known before.

Through film, I realized that was a safe place for me to play. It was a safe place for me to express myself and explore these things that I was afraid to explore in my real life.

When I did 'The Great Escape,' I kept thinking, 'If they were making a movie of my life, that's what they'd call it - the great escape.'

It was always theater for me. But part of that came out of the fact that I was always acting out as a kid. I was the kid who didn't play well with others.

Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we're all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience.

For me, horror movies are a real escape.

Theater has always been terrifying to me.

My first time I directed a play was 'No Exit,' a play set in a subway.

I've always been in the theater. I've always gone to it. That's been my way to cope. Early on in my career, I remember running - fleeing - to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.