Sympathy is towards someone else, versus empathy, which is feeling like someone else.

I need to observe the people, and I think I need to observe myself.

I think that collaboration makes me a better director and observer and writer because I can look at things in a different way.

I always worry that me by myself, I'm doing the same thing I'm always doing and become too lazy and conservative in what I do, or too incestuous in my own thoughts.

Dance is so fascinating and I like collaborating with people a lot.

I went to New York for a research trip, just because it has these iconic street canyons. It's one of the few cities that has sidewalks that are wide enough for a sea of umbrellas to be there.

I worked so much when my first son was born that I missed a lot.

Knee-deep in the cosmic overwhelm, I’m stricken by the ricochet wonder of it all: the plain everythingness of everything, in cahoots with the everythingness of everything else.

I'm a person who is always trying to write in a different vein.

Man may content himself with the applause of the world and the homage paid to his intellect, but woman's heart has holier idols.

The man who hates war more than he hates the Nazis is a wicked man.

When I do retire, I know for a fact that I'll never be able to replace the incredible feeling I get when I'm driving an F1 car.

Don’t just look for your miracle. Become someone else's miracle.

My father's ashes are not yet interred.strangely, I find the fact that he isn't properly laid to rest helps me when I'm doingthis play.

When I was young, I knew William Burroughs really well. And William's secret desire, which he never quite did, was to write a straightforward detective novel.

Virtue, for us, is obedience to God in Christ.