If you approach an opera as though it were something that always went a certain way, that's what you get. I approach an opera as though I didn't know it.
“The present moment is nice but it does not last. Living in it is like waiting in a junction town for the morning limited; the junction may be interesting but some day you will have to leave it and you do not know where the limited will take you.”
“A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there.”