We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes.

The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it.

In spite of my great admiration for individual splendid talents I do not accept the star system. Collective creative effort is the root of our kind of art. That requires ensemble acting and whoever mars that ensemble is committing a crime not only against his comrades but also against the very art of which he is the servant.

Create your own method. Don't depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions, I beg you.

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

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

The character has to have some kind of arch. The character has to go through an event, and be changed by the human event.