David G. Hays quotes

“A ground plan is important in terms of its rigor. If your plan is soggy and weak, your production will be soggy and weak.”
-- David G. Hays

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“For me, the most important thing is the element of chance that is built into a live performance. The very great drawback of recorded sound is the fact that it is always the same. No matter how wonderful a recording is, I know that I couldn't live with it--even of my own music--with the same nuances forever.”

“Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.”

“One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.”

“You can't have too much of everything, you must have a balance, that's very important.”

“Plays by Alan Ayckbourn have been attracting larger audiences in the regional theatres than those of Shakespeare.”

Source : Press Release by the Arts Council of Great Britain, November 02, 1983.

“I really look up to actors like Gwyneth Paltrow and Cate Blanchett who have a strong background in theatre.”

Source : "hairspray on broadway!". Interview with Ashley Parker Angel, www.seventeen.com. March 29, 2007.

“It seems to me that you are solving a problem which goes beyond the limits of physiology in too simple a way. Physiology has realized its problem with fortitude, breaking man down into endless actions and counteractions and reducing him to a crossing, a vortex of reflex acts. Let it now permit sociology to restore him as a whole. Sociology will wrest man from the anatomical theatre and return him to history.”

“The entire universe is a great theatre of mirrors.”

“I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.”

“Hatred - The anger of the weak.”

Source : Alphonse Daudet, George Burnham Ives, Jane Minot Sedgwick, Katharine Prescott Wormeley, Olive Edward Palmer (1900). “The Works of Alphonse Daudet”