“Sometimes it is easy... to enhance your prestige by not exercising your responsibility, but that's not been the tradition of the court.”

“If you look at some shows that have an ugly feel to them, or a nihilistic sort of feel to them, you'll usually find a group of cynical, unhappy, miserable people behind the production. If you see a show that's rather boring, or a cookie-cutter factory show, you'll usually find some pretty uninterest”