Everyone would like to be on Broadway, cause if a show works, you make a great deal of money and it allows you to write other shows.

The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper. You must not edit until you get it all on paper. If you can put everything down, stream-of-consciousness, you'll do yourself a service.

Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.

My mother wanted me off her hands. She was a working woman. She designed clothes, and she was a celebrity collector. It's my mother's ambition to be a celebrity.

The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I've seen, without exception, in my opinion don't work. A lot of people would disagree with me.

Content dictates form and style.

Every day a little death.