"Nobody gets anything for nothing."

-- Gloria Swanson

“Choosing a director is like choosing a therapist - you want somebody who is going to be a step or two ahead of you, who can interpret and articulate your intentions better than you can, with the benefit of objectivity. I look for a collaborator who is going to help bring to life, on stage, in three dimensions, what is on the page. I wouldn't want a director who imposes conceits or distrusts the text or who has prejudged the characters.”
“I don't want to play with marbles, when God told me to move mountains!”
“It's good to get stage fright. It is necessary to be scared, otherwise you have too much confidence in yourself and you start to get pretentious and do shitty things. It's good to not be so confident in yourself.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“The most important thing for a director is being able to communicate. When you communicate comfortably, regardless of what you're saying, it can always be processed.”
“That isn't how I've always felt. As a congressman, and more recently as a senator, I opposed marriage for same-sex couples. Then something happened that led me to think through my position in a much deeper way.”

Source : "Gay Marriage Wins Another Convert" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. March 15, 2013.
“I'm friends with Carla Olsen and she's doing a lot of producing these days. She's getting quite a little collection of records that she's produced. She's real busy.”
“exaggerated sunsets / splashed with rain, odd collisions / of roots, animals, seeds. / I didn't like a thing I saw, / so much effort to be strange.”
“You have to learn how to turn the tables on the ego. The only way to forgive what is within is to forgive what seems to be without.”

Source : Gary Renard (2004). “The Disappearance of the Universe”, p.171, Hay House, Inc

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