If New York is a wise guy, Paris a coquette, Rome a gigolo and Berlin a wicked uncle, then London is an old lady who mutters and has the second sight. She is slightly deaf, and doesn't suffer fools gladly.
Ben Rome was a perfectionist. He checked every letter that went out to make sure the English was correct.
Romeo Must Die came at the right time. It was the right vehicle for me.
Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo.
There are really only two plays: Romeo and Juliet, and put the darn ball in the basket.
I'm sure when they partied when Rome was burning, that was a really great party.
Unlike settled, patriarchal societies such as classical Greece and Rome, where women stayed home to weave and mind children, the lives of nomadic steppe tribes centered on horses and archery.
Sometimes the leads are equally balanced, like in 'Romeo and Juliet,' but sometimes they're just not.
Children in urban communities suffer from post-traumatic stress syndrome in higher proportions than veterans, and they need therapeutic outlets, which arts and drama has proven to provide.
There's only one barometer for the commercial success of a film and that's the box office. The obsession with box office doesn't annoy me. It's the main part of the business, if you get irritated with the main part then you're in trouble.
