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.

The idea that I have to be on the same side of the fence as Dan Quayle is cruelly depressing to me, but the truth is, I believe in family values.

It's a terrible shame if you're born the brightest guy in your class. If you're not, then you have to hustle-and that's good.

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'm a pragmatic man. I'll veer on the dangerous side, because I love dangerous subjects, but I won't shoot a show in the foot.

There are wonderful composers and librettists out there. It's the lack of creative producers that is troubling.