It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.

The only time that I am really truly happy - when I feel at my best - is when I'm on the stage.

I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.

I am not the kind of director who sits in a chair smoking a cigar talking with a microphone to 10 assistants. I need to move. To touch. To put a painting on a wall. To arrange a set.

I am frivolous. Then I feel guilty.

I feel I am strange to all but the birds of America.