To Be Too Knowing Is A Downfall.

You Know When Someone's Over-flattering You In A Way. You Smile But You Can't Believe It.

There's Something Grueling But Very Appealing About Rough, To-the-bone Material In A Low Budget Context. There's Less Between You And The Material. There Are Less People. There Is Less Time. There's Often Less Technology. You Have To Concentrate Very Intensely, And You Jump In A Little Deeper Because There's Nothing In Your Way... But There Are Challenges.

Theater Is The Foundation Of How I Live My Life, Actually. My Father Was A Playwright, So I Was Around It All The Time And Loved To Talk Shop With Him, Just Loved It. And Basically Everything That I Hold To Be Good And True And Worthy, I Learned In The Theater. So Not Even Just About The Work, But Just About Life. Discipline, Problem Solving, Creativity, How To Get Along With People.

People's View Of Cancer Will Change When They Have Their Own Relationship With Cancer, Which Everyone Will, At Some Point.

I Am Very Aware That Playwrights, Particularly Good Ones, Have A Intention For Everything They Write. Language And Punctuation Is Used Specifically, And Most Of The Time Actors Can Find Wonderful Clues About Character In The Rhythm And Cadence Of The Language Used.