In a way, I have to have a dictatorship. I can`t be told that I`m wrong. That conflicts with what I was saying earlier about listening. It isn`t to do with receiving criticism and responding to other views, it`s who has that last decision.
If you`re a director, your entire livelihood and your entire creativity is based on your self-confidence. Sometimes that`s dangerously close to arrogance.
If you can`t fully believe in your ideas, it very quickly communicates to a group of actors who need something to hold onto. They need to believe that whatever criticism, whatever comment is received, is meant.
I`ve never had any feeling of disconnection between the classical theater, or the contemporary theater, or musical theater, or the thing that we call opera.