Creativity and the world of the imagination - the beauty of what we see as a child and the kind of play that we experience as a child - can be a way for us to survive tough times.

Im always interested in looking - historically - at how theater can animate history and how all of that can make us engage with our lives in an enriching way.

At the core of what I'm doing is a belief in the audience, a belief that populism doesn't mean dumbing down theater, but rather giving the audience a voice and a role in experiencing theater.

Im always interested in working with people who are good team players - that are selfless that way in their interests and dedication to the project.

I grew up with a beautiful gold harp sitting in our living room. My older sister played it.

I don't want to be in an art bubble.

Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story.

Art cannot be looked at as an elite, sacred event anymore. It has to be embraced as an accessible, popular form, which is what I believe theater is at its roots.

The musical theater is a glorious and distinctly American innovation in the history of theater.

Creativity is a form of knowledge.

I had this epiphany that I like the interaction with people. I wanted to make things happen at a grassroots level.

Size doesn't define your beauty and intelligence. Appearance doesn't measure the goodness of your heart and the hidden joy of your soul.

We are a dream of a thought which lives trough the Word.

Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.

When a man wants to write a book full of unassailable facts, he always goes to the British Museum.

I'd like thousands of schools as good as the one I went to, Eton.

Dreams are symbolic in order that they cannot be understood; in order that the wish, which is the source of the dream, may remain unknown.

Anger is our reaction to the violation of our boundaries.

When you say you're 40, you can't call yourself an ingenue any more.

Love is proved by deeds; the more they cost us, the greater the proof of our love.

Erdogan wants a caliphate. We Kurds are in his way. Erdogan can't stop us politically, so he is denouncing us as terrorists.