Violence is never a solution in my plays, just as ultimately violence is never a solution in human affairs.

I think there is no world without theatre.

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

But we are not in the world to be good but to change it.

We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.

If you engage people on a vital, important level, they will respond.

The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks