My generation of director has no illusions that we are going to be fed and cared for by subsidized theater in America.

When you're a freelance director, you are hired to create the art, and it kind of stops there.

There are as many kinds of kisses as there are people on earth, as there are permutations and combinations of those people. No two people kiss alike—no two people fuck alike—but somehow the kiss is more personal, more individualized than the fuck.

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'm trying to bring a new generation into the musical theater and to create a new audience.

In Elizabethan England or classical Athens... theater was at the center of, not culture, but society and politics and religion and civic engagement. Those things have a different audience.