Music is rhythm, and all theater is rhythm. It's about tempo and change and pulse, whether you're doing a verse play by Shakespeare or a musical.
I listen to music, I read scripts, and I know pretty intuitively if I can unlock it in a way. It's actually very liberating when you understand that not everything is for you.
Politics, to a degree, is about legislation, administration. You can't be there in the trenches.
My generation of director has no illusions that we are going to be fed and cared for by subsidized theater in America.
For me, the reason why people go to a mountaintop or go to the edge of the ocean is to look at something larger than themselves. That feeling of awe, of going to a cathedral, it's all about feeling lost in something bigger than oneself. To me, that's the definition of spectacle.
Theatre and opera were always the twin kingdoms that I felt I had to conquer, because they were my parents' favorites.
