Creativity is a form of knowledge.

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.

When you're a freelance director, you are hired to create the art, and it kind of stops there.

My generation of director has no illusions that we are going to be fed and cared for by subsidized theater in America.

I don't want to be in an art bubble.

For me, the reason why people go to a mountaintop or go to the edge of the ocean is to look at something larger than themselves. That feeling of awe, of going to a cathedral, it's all about feeling lost in something bigger than oneself. To me, that's the definition of spectacle.

Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story.