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

Fifteen years ago I walked out of a production of one of my plays at the RSC because I decided it was a waste of time.

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

It seems to me that we are profoundly ignorant of ourselves

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