I always believe it's better to have 30 imaginations working on a project, rather than one imagination telling the other 29 what to do.

If you're a director, your entire livelihood and your entire creativity is based on your self-confidence. Sometimes that's dangerously close to arrogance.

The film director, in many instances, has to swallow somebody else's decision about the final form of something. It's so hard as to be intolerable.

I've never had any feeling of disconnection between the classical theater, or the contemporary theater, or musical theater, or the thing that we call opera.

I've just taken the decision that I'm going to now go full time back into the theater.

One fine day I discovered that more complex plays really have to be directed.

If you feel very deeply about something, it's not possible to sacrifice your integrity about that.