I've permitted myself to learn and to fail with some regularity. And that is probably the one thing I was given, and that I'm still grateful for.

I don't throw things or yell.

Reviews are destructive by their very nature.

Utopia means elsewhere.

When I have failed as an actor I've always thought it was my fault. But when I direct something, I wouldn't want the actors to think it was their fault.

Where women are concerned, the rule is never to go out with anyone better dressed than you.

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