You have no right to go before a public without an adequate technique, just because you feel. Anything feels - a leaf feels, a storm feels - what right have you to do that? You have to have speech, and it's a cultivated speech.

I want to make people feel intensely alive. I'd rather have them against me than indifferent.

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique.

Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.

Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.

Theater used to be a verb; it used to be an act. But nowadays it is just a noun. It is a place.

To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.