I was the first woman to win a Tony for directing, but the second woman came along five minutes later.

I had spent time in New York, where I loved the idea that theater could be done up in tiny little rooms rather than for lots of money on a big stage, and be tied to ordinary life.

The odd thing about Cripple of Inishmaan is its never actually been performed on the island.

I think I'm attracted to writers who tell us something about ourselves.

Women were created gullible. It they weren't no babies would be born.

It is impossible in our condition of Society not to be sometimes a Snob.

I'm saying the American way is to overcome, to conquer, to come out on top. And we do it by spending and eating and screwing our women harder than anyone else. That's all I'm saying.

Knowing that you are completely forgiven destroys the power of sin in your life.

But after all, what have we to do with taverns? Real menace belongs to the drawing-room.

I really [enjoy] working with new people and just sort of the freshness of it. ... I [want] to have those new conversations, musically and otherwise.

Health and happiness give rise to each other.

Positive doesn't mean unflawed: It means human and vulnerable. If you make a film and you're portraying the subject with respect, you're gonna do it in an honest way.

He just raised the dead with coke and cheeseburgers

Not all poetry wants to be storytelling. And not all storytelling wants to be poetry. But great storytellers and great poets share something in common: They had something to say, and did.