I define the American dream as the ability to imagine a way that you want your life to turn out, and have a reasonable hope that you can achieve that.

Death with honor is better than life... life with dishonor.

Why, in the Peking Opera, are women's roles played by men?...Because only a man knows how a woman is supposed to act.

I'm happy. Which often looks like crazy.

I've never quite understood the idea of a "season." Whenever an artistic director says to me, 'I have this slot,' I always start to feel we're parking cars or something.

I define the American dream as the ability to imagine a way that you want your life to turn out, and have a reasonable hope that you can achieve that.

Time flies when you’re being stupid.