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

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.

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.

She had storms all her life, but she died peacefully.

If privacy had a gravestone it might read: 'Don't Worry. This Was for Your Own Good.

It felt good to be the one holding the blade

Identity was partly heritage, partly upbringing, but mostly the choices you make in life.”Patricia Briggs.

Escapers were the cream of the crop.

Space is to place as eternity is to time.

And just as it is with all proper grannies, she ordered me into my pink bunny jammies.

He who stands like a pilar dies in battle. He who bends like a reed is triumphant!

Each of us possesses a tangible living soul. The system has no such thing. We must not allow the system to exploit us.

A family reunion is an effective form of birth control.