It's an intuitive exercise to do a Shakespeare play and to go through a Shakespeare play.

I think I find it easier to live on the stage than in life.

Our job is to make manifest the story, to be it. In a sense, the theatre is such a big star itself, bigger than any Shakespearean actor I could hire, that we should take the opportunity to fill it with voice and verse and movement, not interpretation.

It's an intuitive exercise to do a Shakespeare play and to go through a Shakespeare play.

Well, my wife always says to me, and I think it's true, it's very difficult for us to understand the Elizabethan understanding and enjoyment and perception of form as it is to say... it would be for them to understand computers or going to the moon or something.

But I don't sit down at dinner and have clever ideas.

And people do enjoy the plays at completely different levels. And, likewise, they enjoy the authorship question... at completely different levels.