It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas

The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama

In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised.

The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies.

Now, drama is quite useful at helping us to understand what our position is and, conversely, we might then understand why our theatre is being destroyed

I think there is no world without theatre.

Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society.