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

I had this epiphany that I like the interaction with people. I wanted to make things happen at a grassroots level.

As a director, I never feel that I have the answers.

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

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.

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.

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