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I'm really fascinated by other directors' methods. I've done a lot of learning by observation.

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If you put a blank canvas in front of Matisse and say, 'This has to be a success,' who's going to pick up a paintbrush?

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I am still very observant. I am absorbed by people and why they do what they do.

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It is draining when you have a child, and there aren't many women directors with kids out there as role models.

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Having a child is all-consuming; so is doing a play.

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The plays I choose to work on are about having masks. We all have masks in life, but there is a different inner life going on. The audience has to work hard to see what is going on. I love what is not on display.

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I feel that if you're going to do theater, you've really got to throw yourself into the deep end. You have to commit your whole life and soul to it to make it the best it could ever be because theater can truly change people in lots of different ways. But I also think it can bore people to death, and it's quite a fine line between those two things.

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I'm drawn to female stories, of which there aren't that many, and particularly to stories now about older women. The things they have to confront and override is really fascinating. That's a whole untold part of our world.

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I'm aware, as I get older, there are less and less stories that really pertain to me and who I am and where I'm going.

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I always loved and secretly wanted to do 'Company.' It was produced on Broadway in 1970, and it's about a successful 35-year-old guy who's starting to think he should get married.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Director

Born: December 27th, 1966

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