Quotes

I must confess that one of my main defects as a director has always been an incurable impatience.

Many great minds have made a botch of matters because their emotions fettered their thinking.

Pace is a matter of taste. It means keeping the action alive. But that can be done with pauses as well as picking up cues. It means not having any deadwood.

It's because I love the theater so much that I thought I'd stick around.

I remember, I have a picture of them (Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz) sitting at a table for two, near a window, and I sent over word, "Go ahead, come join us now," and the word came back, never mind, they were already seated, they would stay there. And they stayed there for the rest of the run. It was really love at first sight.