53 Quotes by Joe Mantello

One of the jobs of a director is to ask questions. One of the jobs of the director is to stand in for the audience until they get there.

The way I feel about rehearsals is that the best idea wins.

I get to be in a room with other actors, but I never, or very rarely, get the chance to be in a room with another director.

I have a responsibility to diversity onstage, but one of the things I've heard about our production of 'Boys' is that it's a bunch of white guys. Well, race is a component of this play. You can't just drop people in willy-nilly and say, 'Well, we're going for diversity.'

I don't think of gay writers. I mean if you were to say to me who are the straight writers, well, you wouldn't ask me that question. So for me to identify a little tribe of gay writers, I don't know.

In 'The Humans,' there's a gay character, and the fact that she's gay is probably the least interesting thing about her.

I tend to go toward things that make me afraid.

I was probably the only 10-year-old who adored Sandy Dennis.