"Penn's The Miracle Worker moved me so much as a child. I was fascinated as so many children are – were? – by Helen Keller. In a way, more than any preacher from any pulpit or any passage from the Bible the concept of this person trapped in all that darkness and all that silence being able to communicate in our world – much less smile with such joy without ever having seen what a smiling joyous human face was – spoke to me somehow about the existence of God who when trapped in the infinite silence and darkness of some sort of existential vastness found a way to exist as well and thrust existence upon the world and upon us," – Kevin Sessums.