There's never been a woman that won it, so we don't know, there may never be. But there have not been that many women on Broadway directing, period.

[One question on everyone's lips is whether a woman will capture best director for a play or musical. This year women are nominated in both categories -- Garry Hynes for the play] The Beauty Queen of Leenane, ... The Lion King.

People will justify whatever for a good cause.

I received from my experience in Japan an incredible sense of respect for the art of creating, not just the creative product. We're all about the product. To me, the process was also an incredibly important aspect of the total form.

It's people who are repressed and cannot express their fears that are dangerous.

Americans in particular are myopic. They're not traveling as much. When you were a college student, the next thing you would do on graduation was to take a year off and travel. That's what I did. I went to Indonesia.