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

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

We're a depraved civilization. All this technology, all the computer games and the iPhones... nobody will sit for art anymore. What a dismaying state of humanity.

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 grew up with a beautiful gold harp sitting in our living room. My older sister played it.

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.