Theatre is alive and it is now, and then it's gone.

The legal profession, politics and acting are very closely tied: the whole point is to have an idea and get it across to a listener, whether it is one person or five thousand in a hall.

Storytelling helps us understand each other, translate the issues of our times, and the tools of theater and film can be powerful in helping young people to develop communication/collaboration skills, let alone improving their own confidence.

Talent is only interesting if it's challenged.

After graduation, I was floundering in L.A., doing stand-up comedy and working in a shoe store in the Valley.

You have to always be ready, always be alive, and always be willing to move in a new direction.

I terribly miss - we all miss, I think - somebody like the great producer Irving Thalberg. He had a foot in both camps: He understood us creative people. And he understood the money people.