“Fundamentally, what you're trying to do when you're directing is get a...” — Thomas Kail Quote

Fundamentally, what you're trying to do when you're directing is get a group of people who most likely have never met, unify them, and make sure that we're all clear on what we're marching towards.

I didn't really start going to see a lot of musicals and live theater probably until I was in seventh or eighth grade, maybe my first year of high school, and by that time I'd probably seen 'Grease' twice a year every year of my life.

I think that the nature of being a human being and someone who works in the creative arts is that you hear the word 'no' a hundred times before you hear the word 'yes.'

Fundamentally, one of the things I tend to migrate toward when I'm working is a story about people whose stories aren't told in theater.

I want to do directing and acting. I can do them at the same time - it's a challenge, but it's my dream.

I think the older that I'm getting, the more I'm understand what a privileged job I have, and what an opportunity I have. Now I'm directing films and I'm getting my first movie in America off the ground, and you start to understand how the system really works.

Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.

Music runs through everything I do - I even think musically; even when I was acting, but, especially, when I am directing. Directing is very musical.

Directing is its own monster with its own set of muscles and exercises.