Swallows and Amazons for-ever!
It's a real gift to have a husband and wife in the company that love each other and that work together. They check on each other emotionally and physically. That's beautiful to me.
I'm moved by contraries, by opposites, the strength that was my mother's eyes, the beauty of my father's hands.
So many people dwell on negativity and I've survived by ignoring it: it dims your light and it's harder each time to turn the power up again.
Excellence is the name of the game.
I was a protege; by the age of 10, I was studying with ballet choreographer Anthony Tudor in a class of adults.
I have been guilty of watching Westerns without acknowledging that Native Americans have gone through the same madness as African Americans. Isn't it extraordinary that sometimes the most offended have not seen others being offended?
One who believes all of a book would be better off without books
In the newborn child is realized the common good of the family.
The moment there's a foreigner in a film it gives a novelty to the script. We make regional films and we need to hype our films.
Back when I was in theater school, trying to figure out what I was going to do with my life, 'Sweeney Todd' was a huge touchstone for me, my favorite musical for sure.