Exposure to the arts and culture is enormously valuable..

It's so easy for us to misperceive and see the things in others that we want to see. And, when we're wrong, and often we're dead wrong, we miss the t….

There's something really incredible about watching what someone else does with a role that we know: the Hamlets or the Henry Vs or the Othellos or th….

There are good people in the lobbying industry. Lobbyists can serve a very useful purpose..

We're all victims of our own hubris at times..

Because my mother was in love with Bobby Darin, I grew up with his records playing in our house all the time..

People sometimes say, "Isn't it boring, isn't it always the same? It's the same lines." I go, "Well, do you play tennis? Because that's the best anal….

The audience has spoken. They want stories. They’re dying for them. They’re rooting for us to give the right thing. And they will talk about it, bing….

To look in the eyes of audiences and see the kind of naughty glee that they got with being on the inside, the audience becomes your co-conspirators..

People have different reasons for the way they live their lives. You cannot put everyone's reasons in the same box..

You've got to trust the ground you're standing on and the work you've done in telling your story. The goal should be to bring those thousands of peop….

Look, I might have lived in England for the last several years but I'm still an American citizen and I have not given up my right to privacy..

I don't know who Keyser Soze is, but whoever he is, he is going to get gloriously drunk tonight..

While data can only tell you what has happened in the past, it can in some ways give you a sense of what might be of interest to an audience in the f….

It takes stamina to get up like an athlete every single night, seven to eight performances a week, 20 weeks in a row. And there are many young perfor….

To me, getting up every single night and trying to reach out to an audience, and trying to dig deeper and further in the play to serve the writer and….

I'm not a writer. I marvel at writing. I am sometimes absolutely astounded when I read something and I think how in the world did that man or that wo….

You must find a way to express your ideas and compel your audience to react through the idea itself, and then figuring out what the best representati….

If it were not for people who stepped forward and gave me opportunities at a time when I had not proved myself at all, believe me, I would not have a….

When you know you have 1,000 people sitting on the edge of their seats in silence because of a shift that just happened on stage, there is no better ….

Fortunately for me, I don't come from the school where you only measure success by how much money something makes or whether it has a big box-office ….