The World Motivation
You have to transmit to them what it's like being in the theater. And it has to come from somewhere inside you and not by being like what somebody did last year.
“You have to transmit to them what it's like being in the theater. And it has to come from somewhere inside you and not by being like what somebody did last year.”
You have to transmit to them what it's like being in the theater. And it has to come from somewhere inside you and not by being like what somebody did last year.
We've managed to keep a spirit of fun, I guess, of urban satire and finding new and odd interesting angles to the ways of life to put on the stage.
As a main ingredient to the show, it has to have truth, represent truth, or else it won't last.
I had met a young lady who wanted to be in the theater. It was Judy Holliday. She had somehow fallen down the steps of the Village Vanguard, which still exists today.
We had a certain kind of really big prestige among, I suppose not just intellectual folk, but a sort of nice middle class intelligent folk of a very urban nature.
I live in New York and I was only there for 2 weeks all last year.
Talking money is crass; so I'm not going to tell you what I made last year.
That's the NFL: Not For Long. First year's a welcome year. Second it's, What are you going to do? Third year's like, Well, you didn't do much last year; give us something or you're going. That's the way it is. They'll trade you or they'll cut you.
I had always been interested in opera, going back to my college days at Carnegie Mellon. In my last year there, I even wrote a one-act opera, which was pretty terrible.
I can't tell you how hard I worked the last year. In fact, I worked so hard that I know I can't maintain that same work level in 2001, so I've got to quit something.