I've never had any feeling of disconnection between the classical theater, or the contemporary theater, or musical theater, or the thing that we call opera.

In the commercial theater, I've been pretty fortunate. The producers that I've worked with have allowed me to define the artistic integrity, the artistic limits of the work.

If you're a director, your entire livelihood and your entire creativity is based on your self-confidence. Sometimes that's dangerously close to arrogance.

I always believe it's better to have 30 imaginations working on a project, rather than one imagination telling the other 29 what to do.

In my teens, I developed a passionate idolatry for a teacher of English literature. I wanted to do something that he would approve of more, so I thought I should be some sort of a scholar.

The film director, in many instances, has to swallow somebody else's decision about the final form of something. It's so hard as to be intolerable.

I would be terribly disappointed if anything would get in the way of my being cast in something, or if performances were canceled. It was a fix that I obviously needed.

One fine day I discovered that more complex plays really have to be directed.

I've experienced a private doubt, something that I've kept deeply inside, and then eventually delivered a piece of work that people responded to with huge enthusiasm.

Soundbite and slogan, strapline and headline, at every turn we meet hyperbole. The soaring inflation of the English language is more urgently in need of control than the economic variety.

Mem'ry All alone in the moonlight I can smile at the old days Life was beautiful then.

When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar.

When they're gone out of his head, these words, they'll be gone, everywhere, forever. As if they had never been.

In constant view keeps mightily true an honest resolve to do.

Whales are killed today to supply the limited demand for whale meat or to be used in pet foods or as fodder for fur-bearing animals used in the fur trade.

Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

Cary Grant, said, 'I heard you were on the lot and I just had to meet you.

Contact with the customer is what business is all about.

No man is happy without a goal, and no man can be happy without faith in his own ability to reach that goal.

Successful innovations become conventions.

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find next morning that it was someone else.