Gratuitous cruelty borders on the pathological, psychotic and that becomes uninteresting because there is no choice.

I have taken film-work that has been a little more cliché-written, to support myself and my family, and that's a whole kind of other challenge. It's like chopping wood: You've got to take what you can get and bless what withstands you. But in theatre! There's enough great theatre that you can find something interesting!

In the creative process there is the father, the author of the play; the mother, the actor pregnant with the part; and the child, the role to be born.

Don't go so deep in yourself that you no longer exist for your partner and for the character and for the play.

All action in theatre must have inner justification, be logical, coherent, and real.

Play well, or play badly, but play truly.

The direct effect on our mind is achieved by the words, the text, the thought, which arouse consideration. Our will is directly affected by the super-objective, by other objectives, by a through line of action. Our feelings are directly worked upon by tempo-rhythm.