"I love the power of theater. I think it’s an experience you never forget. It’s more powerful than film or television. I know the plays I saw with Al Pacino, American Buffalo, and True West with John Malkovich, I feel like I lived those moments. It becomes a part of your memory and your life in a way that film and TV has a little bit of distance. Also, theater allows you to be much more political; it allows you to be much more who you are. Where did Hamilton happen? It didn’t happen in movies and television, because it couldn’t. “So we’re going to do a historic piece on Hamilton and everyone is going to be black and Latin playing our forefathers.” They would say: “But wait, they didn’t speak hip-hop in the 1700s?” It would’ve never happened! But where did it happen? On Broadway, in the theater."