Violence is never a solution in my plays, just as ultimately violence is never a solution in human affairs.
If you engage people on a vital, important level, they will respond.
What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being.
It seems to me that we are profoundly ignorant of ourselves
The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies.
We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.