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

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.

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 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.

Life is only precious because it ends, kid. Take it from a god. You mortals don't know how lucky you are

God was never created the economy.Men found it after banished from Eden.

Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.

Money is still the root of all evilYet we tell our kids don't get that degreeThe jobs don't pay enough.

A smile is a God given sun that lights up our lives in the midst of darkness

It has taken me a lot of years, but I find silence is sometimes the best answer.

The only time I penetrated Tony Blair's defenses over Iraq was by keeping eye contact while telling him he never seemed to by sorry

It takes a certain brashness to attack the accepted economic legendsbut noneat all toperpetuatethem. So theyare perpetuated.

It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.

It really is a nice theory. The only defect I think it has is probably common to all philosophical theories. It's wrong.