If you don't get feedback from your performers and your audience, you're going to be working in a vacuum.
“London was a really multi-racial city ... It's incredible how comfortable people are with race there.”
“You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.”