My principal focus is finding great dramas.

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

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.

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.

To expand your wings, be persistent in learning new things.

Look at the mirror! Who are you? You are not yourself, you are your culture! Do you want to be yourself? Then leave your prison and discover the paths beyond your path!

The problem is not that we can't answer the great questions, but that we ask them in the first place.

Seems like people always want to think they're doomed. It brings them some kind of black comfort, I guess.Nate

The higher the better. It's more about an attitude. High heels empower women in a way.

When a song comes to you, you can't run around it.

I had an uncle who had a car with a rumble seat, and I used to love to ride in that thing. I mentioned this to some kids, and they were like, "What are you even talking about?"

Nothing is easier than sinning.

So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around?

Sympathy is towards someone else, versus empathy, which is feeling like someone else.