In not-for-profit theater, you don't worry so much about how the audience is going to react. You want to make them absorb the piece.

Opportunity is not a lengthy visitor.

Every day a little death.

Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other.

Perpetual anticipation is good for the soul but it's bad for the heart.

He came from a rock band and even though he was not a lead singer, I knew he was musical just from that. I also knew that he was intelligent enough from talking to him, that he would not play this part unless he could handle it vocally. I knew he was not about to get up there and have to have his voice dubbed or come off croaking. So Johnny Depp casted Johnny Depp. I trusted him entirely. I knew that he was no fool and he would only do it if he felt he could handle it. I told him to listen to the score carefully and if you can handle it, fine by me, and I was right.

Musicals are so expensive to put on the stage that you have to have the backing of a corporate, you have to have Universal Studios or Disney or somebody to put in the money.