Now that we have a democracy and you can go back and the airport air is not laden with evil any more, you can actually breathe oxygen when you land in Johannesburg.

My mother was very agnostic. She would never set foot in the synagogue, she couldn't be doing with it.

You learn from mistakes, but Shakespeare is one big non mistake isn't he? He just got everything right really.

So we do have our exits and our entrances and we are perhaps mere, but I think if one keep a certain joyousness in life which should be in playing, then good for one, but it's slightly more serious than that.

One tries to be an observer as an actor and indeed as a director because the small things, the give-away things are what are really interesting to a performer.

I find its attention to living this life rather than the next one exhilarating because I think even independently of Judaism that that's the right way to go about life.

But I think theatre in a repressive society is an immensely exciting event and theatre in a luxurious old, affluent old society like ours is an entertaining event.