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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.

Theatre can be so patronising. So often, it's just proselytising for the theatre.

Communication is very important. And the arts do that, whether it's film or theater.

Musical theatre is now a worldwide conversation.

Theater is about language, so characters have to define themselves through language for an audience.

Once in awhile, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often.

What's exciting about theatre is observing human behaviour. You're constantly making judgments about body language, the physical, the emotional, the intellectual.

Politics with me isn't theater. It's performance art. Sometimes, for its own sake.

With theater, you have to really be able to listen and to respond to other people on stage. You're all constantly on your toes. And then with film and television, you can get a second take and things like that.

Theater, for me, is no longer a conversation about how we destroy each other; it's much more about how we may be destroying everyone else.