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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Those who believe that where great personages are concerned new favors cause old injuries to be forgotten deceive themselves.

A pessimist finds the darkness around the light but an optimist becomes the light in the darkness.

False in one thing false in everything

Give me the liberty to know to think to believe and to utter freely according to conscience above all other liberties.

Tamaki: You're the one giving up without even trying.

In my spare time I like watching TV, laying on the couch, just chillin'.

But those with an evil heart seem to have a talent for destroying anything beautiful which is about to bloom.

In science, new ideas are at first completely neglected, later fiercely attacked, and finally regarded as well known.

To hurt someone you know will forgive you is the unkindiest thing of all.

I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer - its dust and lowering skies.