The Author is subtly unflinching in its satirical attack on certain practices in the creation of art and the mediation of violence.

The Author is a play about responsibility, how active we are as spectators and how responsible we are for what we choose to look at.

A child knows when they are on the receiving end of a didactic exercise, or when they are sitting in the shadow of something else.

I'm attracted to the underrated characters.

Theatre critics have no special access to the truth. And there should be no objective truth to art.

Unease is not an emotion I get often in the theatre, and I like it.

As actors, we do our best to keep things light and to encourage in the audience an openness to the changing atoms in the room.

I am particularly interested in creating a relationship between ideas of reception in conceptual art and theater.

Uncertainty is a very good thing: it's the beginning of an investigation, and the investigation should never end.

It's important to find characters that share sympathy with a young audience, not just in the story but their role in the world.

We're only happy--truly happy--when it's forever after, but only children live in a world where things can last forever.

I go backwards and forwards, recapturing the past, wondering about the future—and, most unreasonably, I find myself longing for the past more than for the future.

Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

We seldom stop to think that we are still creatures of the sea, able to leave it only because, from birth to death, we wear the water-filled space suits of our skins.

The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; its broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.

I just want to be healthy and happy. I don't want to hurt anybody or make them mad. If that's a philosophy then that's my philosophy.

We cannot freely and wisely choose the right way for ourselves unless we know both good and evil.

Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.

Painting has this ability to send the viewer [backward], but it's also this physical object in the room with you. It's always knocking you back into the present moment, which I find very pleasurable.

It proved to be pretty impossible to get funds for a feature film in Finland. It's still small, but the film industry was miniscule at that point in the early '80s.