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

For a while I wanted to be a professional baseball pitcher, and then I wanted to be a musician and then sometimes I think I'd like to start a store for gift-wrapping Christmas presents... But I feel I could do most things I set my mind to, except mechanical things, I'm not very good at that.

The one natural gift I have is easy access. That's the only natural I gift I have at all. You have to have that, the third eye.

My father could be very distancing. My clearest memory is of him squatting, watering plants for hours and hours at a time, completely silent. He was very self-contained; my mother was more outgoing and chatty and social. I'm certainly more like her.

And if you say a word about this over the radio, the next wings you see will belong to the flies buzzing over your rotting corpse.

When you do a really good play, the audience and the performers are looking into the same looking glass, the same microscope. And the specimen they are looking at is human life and that's why I do it, that's why I like it.

I always wanted to be fashionable.