Everyone tells tiny lies, what's important really is the size.

When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote for his actors.

I like songs that are part of a dramatic texture, and therefore I like the scenes to be active. I wanna follow the story and that means you lean on the actors.

When you trance out properly, when you're completely in that world, there is no other world, so there's no conflict.

Nice is different than good.

In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies.

I was watching him crawl, Back over the wall-! Then bang! Crash! And the lightning flash! And- well, that's another story, Never mind- Anyway.