Michael Ritchie Quotes

"It's exciting to see a kid at a rehearsal meeting with someone who seems like such an icon."
- Michael Ritchie
(Related: Meeting)

"I had no training in the theater. I did not study it but just did it."
- Michael Ritchie
(Related: Study, Theater, Training)

"The trick is to have my own particular taste and feel for the theater to audiences who have been used to one particular style and taste for nearly 40 years."
- Michael Ritchie
(Related: Audiences, Style, Taste, Theater, Years)

"The audience includes subscribers, so you have to be careful."
- Michael Ritchie

"Sitting in this chair, my recommendation would carry too much weight."
- Michael Ritchie
(Related: Weight)

"Los Angeles has always been on the table with us."
- Michael Ritchie

"Just go out there and do it. It's not the easiest path."
- Michael Ritchie

"In next five to 10 years I probably would have done my best work, but I was afraid of having another 10 or 15 years ahead of me and feeling stale, so this was an opportunity to reinvigorate myself."
- Michael Ritchie
(Related: Work, Opportunity, Feeling, Years)

"I've never presented. The logistics of that is a challenge."
- Michael Ritchie
(Related: Challenge)

"I'll be going to the granddaddy of the Los Angeles theaters."
- Michael Ritchie

"I have no interest in directing. I'd be a bad director."
- Michael Ritchie
(Related: Interest)

"I feel that I'm leaving Williamstown too early, but I'd rather leave too early than too late."
- Michael Ritchie

"I went into this job to do plays, but that's here for 10 weeks, and the rest of the year I do a lot of other things-the administrative work of planning, reading plays."
- Michael Ritchie
(Related: Work, Job, Planning, Reading, Rest)