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

Humanity's become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair.

Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.

What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being.

In the end I think theatre has only one subject: justice

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

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