I always wanted to create a project that would allow me to think about cross cultural relationships and hybridization but did not want to use my personal story or standard tropes of multiculturalism.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.But you are eternity and you are the mirror.

I had accepted a job being a math teacher for Teach For America. So, that's what I would have done at least in the two years after I graduated.

When there's something or someone, when there's anything that makes you happy, you don't let a continent or an ocean or an empty pocket keep you apart

I believe that improvisation is really just a directorial tool. It's a writing tool.

The eyes of the owner can see what no one else can see.

I don't like walking in the street and seeing 30,000 copies of myself.

We all want to be forgiven. There's a lot of really, really bad people who want to be forgiven but will never be forgiven, and I might be in that camp.

People say that if you don't love America, then get the hell out. Well, I love America.

You might not have thought it possible to give birth to others before one has given birth to oneself, but I assure you it is quite possible, it has been done; I offer myself in evidence as Exhibit A.

On some planet, I probably could have been a lawyer. On some planet, I could have been somebody in advertising.