The art is about opening, it is not about prejudice, it is not about contempt prior to investigation. It's about endlessly trying to keep from having contempt by admitting that you don't know. Even if you know a lot compared to some other people, usually, I think, the honest experience would be: "God, how little I know! And how much I need to have compassion for myself and for other people."

I am so thrilled by the privilege of life, and yet at the same time I know that I have to let it go.

All I know is that my best work has come out of being committed and happy.

I've been delighted by Cannes and Toronto but I keep saying I don't know how good we're going to be received in America because that's where it's most challenging

The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done

Also CSPAN is really the great treasure of the media as far as getting information.

I need six weeks of rehearsal and women need nine months and it took me 15 years to figure that out