To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.

I've always found it not only easy, but enjoyable. It's necessary for us to reach out and I'm speaking for myself here. I certainly have a sense of responsibility to reach out to these people in the theatre who might look to someone like me for some guidance.

I have directed good actors and have gone through the process which is more detailed in theater in a way. You have to get people to stay for two or three hours in a performance. They need more talk and rehearsal than in films.

Clothes, thank God I can get them from designers.

You can read a dozen different textbooks or how-to manuals that will tell you the basic rules of what makes a story - a beginning, a middle, and an end.

The test of character is having the ability to meet challenges.

We are familiar with terrorism. But indiscriminate, cross-border, religiously motivated terrorism is new.

In baseball you have terrific data and you can be a lot more creative with it.

Joyce for all his devotion to his art, terrible in its austerity, was a lad born with a song on one side of him, a dance on the other; two gay guardian angels every human ought to have.

Life must be considered sui generis; it is not a form of energy, nor can it be expressed in terms of something else.