I don't look back. I look forward and plan new shows. That's really feeding the most important part of working in the 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.

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

The truth is, for some absurd reason, no one is willing to admit that the interests of the producers and the theater owners are not the same.

I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in rehearsal or on the stage there will be a problem I didn’t anticipate. It’s really good to think we got it all nailed - of course you’ve never got it all nailed.

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

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.