The notion that the staging of the play Harry Potter should be raw magic and street theater rather than high-tech theater, was essential.

In this new digital landscape, this sort of international marketplace, it's come full circle, and I wanted to take advantage of my talent relations on both sides of the Atlantic.

You never know, until you put a play up for an audience, whether it's going to work. Things you think will work don't, and things you're not sure about work really well.

I live in New York, so I'm used to the audiences that cheer and clap through a play. It is unusual for London audiences.

Each audience seems to have a life of its own, which is why watching the show regularly is so exciting, because it's always a different experience.

The play has to work for the super fans, and not speak down to them, and yet it had to play to those people who maybe had never read a Harry Potter book or seen the films.

My principal focus is finding great dramas.

New York is obviously the capital of theater.

I think people want the intimacy in the engagement of sitting in a theater with people and seeing something happen live and engage in that. I think that could be a very powerful experience.

My career has sort of been characterized by taking advantage of the changes in the marketplace, sometimes by design, sometimes by accident.

eorum omnium actiones in se invicem

People hide the truth to protect those they love!

Life will drag us kicking and screaming to our destiny if we try to escape it.

A lot of comedians, when they have a bad gig, will blame everything but themselves. They'll blame the crowd, or the room was wrong, it had a weird vibe, or the promoter promoted a weird atmosphere.

Oddly enough, success over a period of time is more expensive than failure.

When we look at a painting, listen to a piece of music, read a novel, or watch a movie we are taking in the artist's composition. The composition is the totality of the work.

Be slow to criticize. And fast to APPRECIATE

I didn't have a teenage or early-20s experience that was free and without worry. I missed the screw-everything, have-a-good-time phase.

Men whose wit has been mother of villainy once have learned from it to be evil in all things.

No man's pie is freed From his ambitious finger.