It must be obvious. . . that there is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity.
I think every director has a different methodology.
Every Irish person of my generation and earlier, we were raised Catholic and we'd have to learn it in school, we'd to learn the catechism by rote.
I think for me with theater, I need to take a break and then fall in love with it again. And then go do it again.
I suppose I've always been attracted to this sort of outsider in general - in literature, in music, politics, whatever - and to the person that is able to be relentlessly themselves. I don't think that I have that quality, that strength of mind.
There's a lot of comedy in Intermission but it's got this depth. It's not comedy for comedy's sake - it's informed by something else. I like stuff like that
It's always nice to be challenged.
Not everyone who started with you will finish with you. Be willing to go without them if you have to.
Mankind's survival is dependent on man's ability to solve the problems of racial injustice, poverty, and war; the solution of these problems is in turn dependent upon man's squaring his moral progress with his scientific progress, and learning the practical art of living in harmony.
Weigh risk carefully, and once you decide a risk is manageable and necessary in the pursuit of your dreams, take it.
It is not the critic who counts