We never could have undertaken something like this if we had not made the commitment to rebuild the theater.

Intimacy without commitment, like icing without cake, can be sweet, but it ends up making us sick.

The U.S. government's commitment to continuing to pump out these graduates began to drop off in 1970s. The space race had been won. There was a recession in the late 1960s. The country was hurt by the oil crisis in the early 1970s. And the country had moved away from the attitude of the 1960s that you could solve the world's problems with government spending.

God comes to us in theater [in] the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orchestra, or a wonderful ballet, or a beautiful painting, or a play. It's a way of expressing our humanity.

I think it really brings about the magnitude of the man and the humanity of him.

It got very expensive to produce that many.