Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.

The only reason for doing a play is to make a statement about it, and by that I don't mean a conceit of the producer.

If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they're talking.

I don't like television when it gets near to photographed plays.

n Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.

A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.