I don't see the script as just a springboard for my interpretation. You do your best to serve … - Joe Mantello

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But what I'm very interested in, whether it's writing, whether it's hosting a show, whether it's cooking food, I'm just into the discussions of identity, culture and the politics of culture.

Joe Mantello

I don't see the script as just a springboard for my interpretation. You do your best to serve the vision writers have - not by removing yourself from the equation, but by trying to filter what they intended through your artistry.

Artistry, Filters, Springboard, Trying, Vision, Writers

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I think actors are brave souls that have to use parts of themselves that I'm just not comfortable doing anymore.

Actors, Anymore, Brave, Soul, Thinking, Use

Theater isn't there to provide answers. Only possibilities. I just ask the questions. But I believe hope comes from the fact that there is a potential for redemption. At the core, that's what matters in the theater I'm attracted to. Do we dare to hope? Do we allow ourselves to hope?

Believe, Core, Hope, Redemption, Theater, What Matters

I understood that I was not the best director in the world nor the worst director in the world. I realized that there is a very mysterious element to what works and what doesn't work in the theater. And it's good to know that from the beginning.

Directors, Elements, Good, Theater, World

I think, as written, 'Assassins' simply acknowledges the very human need to be acknowledged. As director, I've got to put aside any particular biases or prejudices that, as a moral human being, this is not an appropriate or acceptable way to get what you want.

Acceptable, Appropriate, Assassins, Directors, Prejudice, Thinking

I think good actors - good, collaborative actors who see themselves as leaders in a given production - can and should offer ideas that have nothing to do with wanting to direct themselves.

Ideas, Leader, Nothing, Production, Think, Thinking