The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

The most important playwright's gift is to hit your time and speak to your time.

[VIA DOLOROSA]'s pushing Broadway as far as it can be pushed. I stand before you as a reporter, and you have to decide whether I'm an honest reporter or not. And if you're convinced that I am honest, then I think that you will listen to me in a way that you wouldn't have listened to a fiction where scenes are made. . . . I've thought quite long and hard about what I want to say in this play. And if it means that every single sentiment that I produce is put minutely under an ideological microscope, that's fine.

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

Via Dolorosa is the only thing I have ever acted in my life, professionally, and Ill never act again.

. . . it is true that language and forward movement in the cinema are jolly hard to reconcile. It's a very, very, difficult thing to do. . . . There is still a place in the cinema for movies that are driven by the human face, and not by explosions and cars and guns and action sequences . . . there's such a thing as action and speed within thought rather than within a ceaseless milkshake of images.

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.