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"If you're a director, your entire livelihood and your entire creativity is based on your self-confidence. Sometimes that's dangerously close to arrogance."
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"If you ever desire to give birth to anything at all, then you cannot do without solitude."
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"I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of shit. I try to put the shit in the wastebasket."
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"Right now, I have no idea what I will write or if I will write again."
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"I've never had any feeling of disconnection between the classical theater, or the contemporary theater, or musical theater, or the thing that we call opera."
"A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is analysis and having a sense of literature."
"In a way, I have to have a dictatorship. I can't be told that I'm wrong. That conflicts with what I was saying earlier about listening. It isn't to do with receiving criticism and responding to other views, it's who has that last decision."
"In the commercial theater, I've been pretty fortunate. The producers that I've worked with have allowed me to define the artistic integrity, the artistic limits of the work."
"I would be terribly disappointed if anything would get in the way of my being cast in something, or if performances were canceled. It was a fix that I obviously needed."
"If you feel very deeply about something, it's not possible to sacrifice your integrity about that."
"I had a feeling about Shakespeare's soliloquies, that there should be a real exchange between the actor and the audience."
"So, through all that early professional career I would occasionally do a musical, a pantomime or a play with songs. The next stop would be a Shakespeare, or an Ibsen, or a play by a brand new writer who had never done anything in the theater before."
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