Planning Cities Is A Necessary But Risky

When You're Directing Something, You Absolutely Have To Be Involved In All Layers Of The Process.

Of Course One Worries About Getting Older - We're All Fearful Of Death, Let's Not Kid Ourselves. I'm Simply Not Panicking As My Laugh Lines Grow Deeper. Who Wants A Face With No History, No Sense Of Humor?

I'm Old Enough To Remember The Days When You Spoke To One Person From One Outlet And That Was The Conversation. But Now What Happens Is You Speak To People And What You Say Gets Translated Into Portuguese, Then Into Mandarin, Through A German Prism And Then Back Into English And Bears Little To No Resemblance Between - To The Exchange Or - That You Had Initially With The Journalist Or To What You Originally Said.

The First Thing Is To Accept That Theater Is An Unknown. If You Go To A Concert, You Know The Music. If You Go To An Art Show, You Can Literally See The Art On Your Phone Before You See It In Person. But With Theater, Often Times People Aren't Prepared To Take Risks, Even Though That's Exactly What's Great About It.

My Dreams Tend To Be Like Dog Dreams. I'm Usually So Tired That I Hardly Dream At All. In A Way, I Do Think That The Zone One Performs In - Without Getting Too Ooga-booga About It - It's Like That Moment When You Wake Up In The Morning And You're Emerging From A Dream State But You're Not Quite Up. Where Are You? Can You Hear The Birds? Or Is That The Traffic? It's That Zone In Which I Perform. It’s Like One Foot In Reality And One Foot In A Dream State. I Spend Most Of My Life In That State!