As a director, I never feel that I have the answers.

Creativity and the world of the imagination - the beauty of what we see as a child and the kind of play that we experience as a child - can be a way for us to survive tough times.

Im always interested in looking - historically - at how theater can animate history and how all of that can make us engage with our lives in an enriching way.

At the core of what I'm doing is a belief in the audience, a belief that populism doesn't mean dumbing down theater, but rather giving the audience a voice and a role in experiencing theater.

Im always interested in working with people who are good team players - that are selfless that way in their interests and dedication to the project.

I grew up with a beautiful gold harp sitting in our living room. My older sister played it.

I don't want to be in an art bubble.

Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story.

Art cannot be looked at as an elite, sacred event anymore. It has to be embraced as an accessible, popular form, which is what I believe theater is at its roots.

The musical theater is a glorious and distinctly American innovation in the history of theater.

Creativity is a form of knowledge.

If emptiness is endless, then everything rests in emptiness.

The only way to stop Jim Brown was to give him a movie contract.

It's easy to remember only the good parts of people if you never see them. Real people are much more complicated.

We all claim to worship the same God, so why don't we fellowship together? ... The only thing that keeps us from fellowshiping together are the church buildings, the organizations.

I think it's really hard to work in a city where you live too, because I get so absorbed with the movie that I become a bad friend and a bad participant in my own life.

Dale Earnhardt was the best race car driver there will ever be in NASCAR. I would hope you don't expect me to replace him because nobody ever will.

I don't talk trash often, but when I do, I go for the jugular.

Each time a friend dies, the present becomes the past, in an instant.

I can tell you this: I'm an extremely passionate individual. I try to be careful how I display it because you never know how people are going to take it.

Writers do the self-censoring before they even get to the studio executive, because they know the film will not run that gauntlet. They, because they want to get their films made, they censor it.