I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before.

If you want to direct, you've got to work.

People just do the strangest things when they believe they're entitled. But they do even stranger things when they just plain believe.

Pardon me for loitering in front of an orchestra.

Read, read, read, read, read. Read everything. You can’t work unless you know the world, and outside of living in the world the best way to learn about the world is to read about it.

I'd bowled a lot, but I never really had proper lessons.

TV is the best babysitter.