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In the early '90s, there was an attention to diversity. In this country, diversity was a good thing. People would use words like 'multicultural' and like it. Now, politically, those words are out. But I still feel theaters have to be diverse in order to survive.

If it's accessible by hundreds of millions of people, then it's as mainstream as it gets.

Mainstream to me equals boring, so I don't want to be doing that.

The myth that theater isn't for everybody is total nonsense. In the 18th and 19th centuries, everybody in America used to go to the theater all the time. The shows they went to see were big, crazy melodramas that had careening storylines and houses burning down and pretty girls in danger and comedy and death and destruction.

I'm not really that keen on mainstream; I'm not interested in doing the normal films. I do tend to go for the quirky, different scripts.

Is the American theatre allowing itself to become irrelevant? The problem isn't that playwrights aren't being paid enough. It's that theatres all over America are looking towards New York to tell them what new plays to do.

Theatre's a much less faddish, more sensible world than TV or film.

It's a big battle to bring quality stuff into theaters across America, for sure.

Movies are somewhat diminished by blockbusters, which are great, but there's not enough choice.

It just seems like that because I do a lot of independent films that don't get to the mainstream.