Im always interested in working with people who are good team players - that are selfless that way in their interests and dedication to the project.

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

Im always interested in looking - historically - at how theater can animate history and how all of that can make us engage with our lives in an enriching way.

Creativity and the world of the imagination - the beauty of what we see as a child and the kind of play that we experience as a child - can be a way for us to survive tough times.

I had to drop a boulder to wake people up about the A.R.T. We've done that, and now we have audiences again who want cutting-edge work, who want to be challenged, but who also won't be falling asleep at the theater.

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

Theatre and opera were always the twin kingdoms that I felt I had to conquer, because they were my parents' favorites.