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"Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint."
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"The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles."

"A show like Knots or any other show that can be called a soap opera does terribly in syndication because if you're a viewer and you miss a week you don't know what's going on."

"In no instance is there to be a musical or opera of Inherit the Wind because it doesn't sing. It's an intellectual play."

"Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out."

"I was interested in opera and it seemed to me that the only possible theatre for contemporary opera would be television. So I started working towards a kind of television kind of opera."

"This is not a rock opera. This is not Tommy. I can write songs that emote, and that's it."

"I don't think an opera house is ever a place that can make you entirely happy."

"A great opera house isn't run by a director, but by a great administrator."
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"I've just opened a show in Florida, although I also have many pieces on display around the world."


"I'm world famous, everywhere I go there are people who love me because of I've been able to bring them some joy from the movies I've made."


"Now I'm a painter. That was another opportunity I was able to pursue, I've been painting all my life, now it's become a second career because of my success in the movies."


"I used to be good friends with my depression, saying oh I'm so depressed, or life is terrible."


"I've made 122 movies, and I daresay there's a picture of mine showing somewhere in the world every day."


"We often don't think of them, we think of the great wars and the great battles, but what about losing a son or a daughter, or a girl losing her husband or vice versa? I think of the people who never got the chance to have the opportunities I had."
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