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" In the early '90s or so, I drove my father to Providence, Ky., his hometown, and he was pointing out, 'That's where the doctor's office was,' and 'That's where we bought ice cream.' And he was pointing to empty lots. When you lose communities, what do you have? We often survive by remembering the stories. "

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" I could program a 'fabulous, I love it' kind of hit season right now. I'm more interested in breaking boundaries, telling a story, defying a truth that has been accepted. "

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" There are a lot of people who will tell you I'm very ruthless. I'm very fierce. If I feel I'm right, if I feel I've been violated, then I am like a warrior from hell! "

" Most musicals are informed by very rigid archetypes. If you get a very sophisticated mind writing them, you sense something else, but it's a folk-art form, really, at its best. At different times, I've tried to push against it as much as I possibly could, but ultimately, it is a folk-art form. "

" Our lives are connected in ways we can't imagine. They're connected even before we know they're connected. "

" With actors, I have very close, intense working relationships with actors in theater. "

" I've always tried to do shows in a filmic way. I like it when forms smack up against each other. "

" In Los Angeles, wealth and poverty are separated by the freeways. In New York, they're next to each other. "

" When I was little, I remember rehearsing starving so that when I got to New York I would know how to do it. "

" Surviving failure is one thing. Surviving success is... is challenging, with the consequences and what you lose along the way. "

" My absolutely favorite time of working on a project is the time I spend not knowing what it is. Because the longer you live inside that period, the likelier you are to discover something new. "

" Anytime you create art, you create a mess. I mean, 'Hamlet' is a mess! "

" You adjust what you do depending on the actor. You evolve a vocabulary and a way of language and talking with each actor. "

" To want to come to New York, you have to have a sense of wonder about the world and a foolish sense of worth about yourself. And I, too, had both of those things. "

" Producing has empowered me as an artist in a specific way. It's forced a certain kind of maturity. "

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" 1985 - That was my time in New York, and I have such poetic, fond memories. "

" The best of any artist is in their art. "

" Theater, at the end of the day, is about ideas. It's about very large ideas. And if the play is beautifully written or smartly written and has incredible characters you follow on the journey, you take home these larger ideas. Whether it's 'Angels in America' or 'Lucky Guy' or 'Normal Heart,' you follow this moment-to-moment journey as an audience. "

" If I hadn't told stories, I would've been a historian. "

" Something that can be so vital at one point can be inconsequential at another. I'm just intrigued by that phenomenon. "

" I love working with actors who will just go, 'Oh O.K., let's try it and see where it goes,' and 'Let's see what we can discover.' "

" Certain events make people come out of their little boxes and become part of the whole. "

" My first play, 'The Colored Museum,' was done in '86 at the Public Theater. "

" The world doesn't see a lot of gray. The world sees black and white, and then it understands. "

" I came to New York to write and direct, and when I got here, a lot of my rage came out. "

" I feel like I've been very blessed in the sense that I've had the veracity of spirit to not be stopped and, at the same time, the protective energy and the generosity of those who have come before me, who saw something inside of me and, therefore, invited me into rooms that I would not have been inside of otherwise. "

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" I think I am the first person of color to direct a major white play on Broadway. In 1993? That's astounding to me. And horrifying to me. "

" I pride myself on being available to as many people's stories as I possibly can. "

" Each actor, every single time you work with an actor, you have to come up with the language that's going to serve them. And that's what allows them to give the performance that you want to nurture inside of them and what you think they're capable of giving. "

" The only rule of a musical is that it must maintain its buoyancy. "

" I really don't find revivals very interesting because I like new work a lot. I feel like if you're going to pay me, then let me do what I do and let me try to solve some problems. Let me try to make something fly. Why would I do something that everybody has already done the hard work on? But that's me. Tons of people do revivals really well. "