The most evocative thing to me is probably when a writer and a group of performers can collectively put together something compelling that asks the really simple question: 'How do we live?'

I don't wake up drenched in sweat because I haven't been on stage in years.

I only have two rules for my newly born daughter: she will dress well and never have sex.

The projects I look for to produce or direct would not be ones in which I would want to act.

Art is not disposable. If you want it, you have to hold it and smell it and touch it and read the credits and enjoy it and put it on your wall.

There's no worse feeling in the world than realizing the play you've directed doesn't work.

My father was a very contradictory man. I mean, most environmentalists in America in the 1950s - of which there were hardly any - were not... paratroopers. But my father was in the 82nd Airborne, it was just like that.