Most of Ayn Rand's major characters are already formed at the start of the stories.

Music and text have several commonalities, and one is meter and rhythm. Both spoken word and music have certain regularities, and they can be sub-divided rhythmically.

After I write a sequence, I just open the script and then sit at the piano keyboard and "play" the script. (And because I also draw and paint, sometimes I sketch out the action as well.)

Basically, I composed the musical structure in one pass. The rest was editing and small adjustments. And when the play was read by actors with the music, the sequence timed-out perfectly.

After each performance of an Austin Shakespeare production, audiences are invited to stay for a ten-minute discussion of the work. And this tradition continues in our New York run.

I really enjoy fusing text and music.

Sometimes, I stood at the front of the E train, watching the tunnel ahead, imagining what Anthem would look like on stage.

I always thought the story [Anthem] would work in three dimensions - and studying that cut material was very useful.

In the original novel [ Anthem], the story unfolds in the mind of a single character. Maybe that's why Ayn Rand called the work a poem.

I think a successful adaptation rises or falls on the work presented. If people need to read the book to understand the play, I didn't complete the job.

I certainly did my best to bring the story [Anthem] to life in another medium.

The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness. And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.

with the police doing all the killing, who do we call when our hero's are the villain

Just when it seems like life is getting good, something always has to come along and ruin it.

hoped to prove that science and religion are two totally compatible fields—two different approaches to finding the same truth.

It is our minds that create this world.

When I'm tired of taking on too much responsibility as a director I then look for an acting gig.

Coal is an essential part of America's energy future, not to mention an important part of Pennsylvania's economy.

It is neither just nor human so to grind men down with excessive labour as to stupefy their minds and wear out their bodies.

And in Freddy vs. Jason I like when Jason and I double team Destiny's Child.

He pleaseth God whom God pleaseth.