I wanted to have a place and a space, and a building, in which to create a season of work I am here because the idea of a theatrical home is very appealing to me

The long version of the play is actually an easier version to follow. In all of the cut versions the intense speeches are cut too close together for the audience and the actors.

The ferocity of passion that is engendered by people when they don't like what you've done is really tremendous. It's intense.

Truth is like most opinions - best unexpressed.

Aging is the diminishing of early fearlessness.

As soon as someone I don’t respect tells me I can’t do something, it just makes me want to do it even more.

I looked at the 1950 animated film [Cinderella], I read a couple of editions of the fairy tale that I have in my house and all of it seemed to say that there was room for a version that delivered, in this story, which seems to invite a feeling in people and I think that is some version of a classical world.