If you want to see your plays performed the way you wrote them, become President.
Source: Address to Institute of Contemporary Arts, London. Quoted in: Independent (London, 24 March 1990).
-- Vaclav Havel, (Oct 5 1936-2011), Czech playwright, poet, politician; He was a prominent playwright and political dissident under communism, who eventually served as the president of Czechoslovakia, 1989-92.