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

That's my policy - to be positive, to just hope that something will happen. If you start with all your fears, your receptivity is for the negative.

My God, it transformed me. My life changed.

When I was growing up, there were a lot more arts in the public schools. Politically, America has screwed up on that.

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

What I don't have in theater is editing.

You just have to throw fear out the window. If there's anything that's going to hold you back, it's fear.