In a normal education everything is designed to suppress spontaneity, but I wanted to develop it.

You can sort of trick people into being really good. Even if they didn't know anything.

I'm not against work, I think work is great, I work a lot; but if you want to play, the consequences must not be important.

Every time you go the way the audience expects, they'll think you're original. People laugh with pleasure at the obvious.

Trying to do better is trying to be better than you actually are, and I don't think you can do that.

Very hard to get an audience. So if you're going to fill the theatre, you can't just rely on old stuff.

Every theatre worth anything has somebody in the middle of it who is driving it; like Joan Littlewood with her theatre.