“Certain events make people come out of their little boxes and become p...” — George C. Wolfe Quote

“Certain events make people come out of their little boxes and become part of the whole.”

“The worst thing when you're working is to say, 'I have a question,' and the other person goes, 'No! This is what it is.' That kind of rigidity is very challenging because musicals are constantly mutating.”

“I love working with actors who will just go, 'Oh O.K., let's try it and see where it goes,' and 'Let's see what we can discover.'”

“Every once in a while I get this idea in my head like, 'Okay, what if I were to just for money's sake, try to make a show that checked off all the boxes that a network person might want.' Just to see if I could do it. That's the craziest impulse I've ever had: 'I wonder if I could please Daddy.'”

“Anyone who wants to promote a car or a football tournament turns to opera. There's a much greater public connection than the image of plush corporate boxes would suggest.”

“My brother had boxes of comic books. He was really the collector.”