I wouldn't say anything I ever did in film would be something I'd use the word proud about. I've done better work in the theater.

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'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.

Even if you do succeed most people wouldn't notice anyway.

I'm not a psychiatrist. I'm not treating patients.

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

And may the best of you - for it will only be the best of you, and even then only in the rarest and briefest moments - succeed in framing that most basic of questions, 'how do we live?'