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I made theater very important in the beginning of my career.

Theater was something that I always wanted to study.

Out of nowhere, I became a fairly well-known director with a penchant for opera, which I did for 10 years. Then I realized I was taking myself out the theater channel, and so I re-focused on theater.

I was heavily involved in musical theater.

I got into theater at an early age.

I grew up seeing a lot of theatre, and it was theatre that really seduced me into acting - not film or television.

I have done a lot of theater.

Theater has been my way of learning about everything.

I don't come from an artistic family, so I didn't know what theater was. I was working on Wall Street in the '90s, and I went to see 'Appointment With a High-Wire Lady' at Ensemble Studio Theatre, and it affected me so deeply. It changed everything I thought about the arts. I quit banking and became an actor.

I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.