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I've learned lately that no one is going to hand me a permission slip and tell me to take time out for me.

I tend to plan as I write. And I want to leave myself open and the character open to keep on going until it seems to be the time to stop.

I get the impression sometimes that a play arrives in a sequence of events that I have no control over.

The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

Being a director, whether you're in rehearsal or you're in auditions or you're in a creative meeting, is so much to me about being present in the moment. There's a sense of time stopping.

I always have plans to return to the stage. I leave myself very open. I think what would be more likely is if I did a limited run of something, whether it be a play or a musical.

If you leave me waiting 'round for hours and then call on me to do something, I need to be able to do it straight away. That's my job, like your job is to do what you do.

I'm very antischedule. Except for board meetings, I don't really schedule things or keep a calendar. I think appointments are caustic to creativity.

Sometimes I can receive the world and regurgitate my version of events easily and sometimes it's hard.