Variety is very, very good. Going from medium to medium, if you get the chance to do it, from theater to television to film, which are all distinctly different, keeps me sharp.

In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand.

The long version of the play is actually an easier version to follow. In all of the cut versions the intense speeches are cut too close together for the audience and the actors.

I think that a lot of exciting elements are finding a place where a film is happily, truly about something.

It's quite hard for people to just accept that they're very contradictory.

So many plays with magic in them that would be a terrific invitation to an imaginative animation team.

I wanted to have a place and a space, and a building, in which to create a season of work I am here because the idea of a theatrical home is very appealing to me