Joe Mantello
Joe Mantello

I get to be in a room with other actors, but I never, or very rarely, get the chance to be in a room with another director.

Joe Mantello
Joe Mantello

I have a responsibility to diversity onstage, but one of the things I've heard about our production of 'Boys' is that it's a bunch of white guys. Well, race is a component of this play. You can't just drop people in willy-nilly and say, 'Well, we're going for diversity.'

Joe Mantello
Joe Mantello

I don't think of gay writers. I mean if you were to say to me who are the straight writers, well, you wouldn't ask me that question. So for me to identify a little tribe of gay writers, I don't know.

Joe Mantello
Joe Mantello

I tend to go toward things that make me afraid.