My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.

I love moving around from town to town. I never got on a train in my life without my spirits rising.

A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.

I'd make my promises now if I wasn't so busy arranging to keep them.

The director is the most overrated artist in the world. He is the only artist who, with no talent whatsoever, can be a success for 50 years without his lack of talent ever being discovered.

I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.