Every now and then I have to teach directing. The thing about the theatre is that the most important thing you can do as a director is to make sure that everybody is in the same world - you have to create the world and make sure everyone buys into it.
No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.
I was playing violin for a long time, about 6 years. It takes a while. You need very patient people in your house when you have a violin.

