Every boy needs a role model that he can be proud of and talk about to the other kids in the playground.

As fascinated as I was by words on paper, it was matched by my fascination with words in people's mouths. The spoken word. And that is the world of theatre.

Theater will never, and never has, gotten audiences like film. But theater goes to work on society in a different and more subversive way.

My life had been defined by the apartheid years. Now we were going into an era of democracy... and I believed that I didn't have really a function as an artist, as a useful artist, in that anymore.

I'm always in disguise in one form or another in my plays.

I've always sensed for myself an obligation to bear witness to my time.

Every boy needs a role model that he can be proud of and talk about to the other kids in the playground.