Audiences are quite happy to be astonished, and they don't care who does that astonishing.

I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.

I love big, bold, truthful theater - the tradition of Victorian theater.

When I was a producer, the fun of the show was waking up with a hit and enjoying the period after the show opens. The fun of a director stops the day it opens. No matter if it's a success or a failure, it's not a whole lot of fun anymore.

I'm crazy about Dublin. If you went back 3,000 years in my ancestry you wouldn't find a drop of Irish blood in the veins, but I love the place.

I have a terrible memory because I'm not interested in the past. It's done, it's done.

Artistic self-indulgence is the mark of an amateur. The temptation to make scenes, to appear late, to call in sick, not to meet deadlines, not to be organized, is at heart a sign of your own insecurity and at worst the sign of an amateur.