One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand.

There are a number of contemporary playwrights whom I admire enormously, but that's not at all the same thing as being influenced.

Every monster was a man first.

I don't feel that catharsis in a play necessarily takes place during the course of a play. Often it should take place afterward.

I imagine as an axiom you could say that the better the play, the less "creativity" the director need exert.

What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.

I have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.