I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them.

Everyone has seen photographs of Mexicans wearing those big sombreros. When you come to Mexico, the astonishing thing is, nobody wears these hats at all.

I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them.

At HBO, they seem to be well-informed. They make what I think are really quite mature films.

With Cold Sassy Tree having its first production, I saw no necessity to do anything other than produce it with the correct setting.

The number of opera houses around the world and the high attendance rates show that opera an art form that is more popular than ever.

In silent movies, they tended to put the camera down, and everybody walked in front of it and acted, and then they all walked off. Cutting was quite infrequent.