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

The problem's always been to deal with the fear.Cos the fear is pretty . . . it ruins everybody really.

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

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.

I see a great lack of stories around. I bought six literary magazines and looked through them to see what people were doing. There wasn't a story in them. They were all about how poetic the feelings of the author were.

Truth is that the best ideas are often psychotic, obscene and unoriginal.

I tell people not to do their best. I don't know when that started. Quite a while ago. Because I . . . when they're doing their best I don't get their best. So I try to persuade them to be average. Because if you're wonderful and you're average, you're still wonderful. If you're a bad improviser and you're average, you're what you are.