“Acting school was summer camp, and I needed concentration camp.”

I was in fifth grade and my teacher saw an ad in the paper and took me to the audition after school and I got the part.

It is important to tell good stories. You can tell stories even if they are not huge, epic, and wonderful.

There is extraordinary similarities between the Midwest in America and Europe in that there is this sense of vast, open sky and loneliness and cold.

I want to present interesting stories that don’t qualify themselves just by virtue of their ethnographic type.

America makes up its own mind about what it wants to see.

I hear music as narrative.

Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.

It paid my way through college and helped my family out.

You can still take the responsibility for being a scribe of your tribe.

I think that I have sold out sometimes.

I think that rap is narrative, when it’s done right.

The camera is interested in what you are thinking as opposed to just what you are doing or saying.

Actors are physical, olympian storytellers and we should be able to create entire landscapes with nothing.

It is important to keep your head up and follow what you believe is right.

You have to work with what you are given, even in Shakespeare. we have our form and it is important that we free ourselves through it.

You can actually figure out before you work on something how much blood you will have to let emotionally.

Despite the hundreds of attempts, police terror and the concentration camps have proved to be more or less impossible subjects for the artist.

I have never believed in being part of any one group or camp.

My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.

I did a real boot camp once which with The Thin Red Line which was learning military exercises and this was far less strenuous.

The best of them will work alone, already a part of the enemy camp, and in chameleon-like style master the fifth-column algorithms to subvert the ancient regime.

People, when they come up to me, are like, “Did we go to high school together? Or did I make out with you at sleepaway camp?” And oftentimes, yes, that is the answer, because I went to a giant high school and made out with everybody.

I didn’t grow up a theatre kid, going to theatre camps. I played sports, and that was my main direction. But luckily, I never had to choose between sports and theatre.

Anytime I can sneak in a moment to fish and ride horses, I’m a happy camper!