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.
“It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them; it may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control.”
“I think a lot of people want to be remembered the way they were, as opposed to the way they are now.”