I Certainly Didn't Have A

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.

The (sir Arthur Conan Doyle) Stories Were Great, For One. The Thing That Makes Him A Remarkable Character Is How He Can Withstand All Of These Different Interpretations And Different Styles And, That's What Makes A Classic Character A Classic Character; They Keep Coming Back And You See Them In A New Way Every Time.

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.

I Am Very Lucky, Because For The Most Part People Are Very Nice To Me, And I Am Still Able To Go About My Life And Ride The Subway And All That.

There's A Real Passing Down In The Theater, Almost Ad Nauseam. You Have To Listen To Older People Talk About Their Experience, But It Makes You Very Aware Of What Has Come Before You Or What Is Coming After You - That You're A Part Of A Link In A Chain. It's Not All About You.