I have plenty of political views and plenty of social and personal prejudices. I do not, however, value them.

I never 'say' anything in my work. I invent a world. Let others decide what is being 'said'.

A good play puts the audience through a certain ordeal.

I believe in poetic discourse, in the value of speech in a non-naturalistic way; it's speculative.

I am so far as I am aware not at all influenced by dramatists, expect for Shakespeare, who I have to say, it is impossible not to be influenced by if you hold language to be the major element of theatre.

The artist who makes himself accessible is self-destructive.

I’ve often taken important classical, biblical or literary stories and interrogated them. I have tried to reinvigorate Lot by interpreting it differently.