I felt so liberated when I first saw Charles Mee’s 'The Glory of the World' at BAM play, because for me this is the gateway to contemplation, or this is the gateway to love, or this is the gateway to faith, not sitting and reading a book by an isolated monk, god bless him. This is.

Sometimes it will be for more money than I've ever been offered before. I mean, am I an idiot again for not doing that?

The ideal is to put on shows where, if you go into the same space again, you don't remember ever having been there before, because where you were was a space that only existed that one time, created by the music.

It's O.K. to accept good fortune.

I think everybody works from a defensive position, for the most part, in the film industry.

I think most great actors have their own life trajectory, the character motion doesn't have anything to do with their life motion.

In the United States the government has become less important. So, it's democracy, but as each year passes it seems that the government plays less of a role in people's lives, and so they're living in whatever situation their employment imposes upon them more than they're living in a grand political system.