I was enchanted by the escape into that meticulous world that seemed real yet not... well, it seemed not real, but very detailed and meticulous, bizarre.
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.
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.
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.
I find little in the works of Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner and others when they are led by a conductor who functions like a windmill.
I grew up with a beautiful gold harp sitting in our living room. My older sister played it.
I had this epiphany that I like the interaction with people. I wanted to make things happen at a grassroots level.
Theatre and opera were always the twin kingdoms that I felt I had to conquer, because they were my parents' favorites.
I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa.
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.
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.
I'm there to make a kind of theatrical music that is desperately missing in my life. And if other people don't like it, I'm very unhappy, but I can't do anything about that.
I'm sorry, but to ask an audience these days to invest three hours in a show requires your heroine be an understandable and fully rounded character.
I've gotten to the point that I don't even know what tomorrow brings. When I'm teaching, obviously I'm in town for the class every week.
I am always looking for what piece, what artists, what playwrights, what directors, what subject matter is going to catalyze an audience.
Plays by people like Martin McDonagh and Brian Friel attract huge audiences, not because they're Irish, but because they're brilliant plays.
I listen to music, I read scripts, and I know pretty intuitively if I can unlock it in a way. It's actually very liberating when you understand that not everything is for you.
Should l go on playing bridge and dining, going in the same old monotonous circle? It's easy that way, but it's a sort of suicide, too.
I acted in junior high in the junior high school group, and then when I got into senior high I was, you know, the main actor of the senior high school.
The thing that I had saved up for myself and wanted most to bring off was a fully fledged professional production of Hamlet at the Royal Shakespeare Theater in Stratford.
Magic is, in its core, introverted and closed; it's the most closed community ever, and I want to change all that and make it more open. If we want things to change, we have to be more open-minded.
