People will justify whatever for a good cause.

I love directing Shakespeare on film. It's fantastic that the actors would do exactly the same thing and be true to their part.

An artist is an entertainer, number one - a storyteller who takes people someplace, who gives them what they didn't know they wanted.

I received from my experience in Japan an incredible sense of respect for the art of creating, not just the creative product. We're all about the product. To me, the process was also an incredibly important aspect of the total form.

You program music with an image and then people are desensitized.

I'm a firm believer in the idea that theater excels over film and TV in its ability to let people play with poetry.

One of the reasons why I love to do Shakespeare is that this great artist was able to talk to a wide variety of audiences. He could do the bawdy plays and the humor and the clowns-as you know, because you're a wonderful Stephano-that speaks to the populace, the masses, the groundlings, whatever.