The work of rehearsal is looking for meaning and then making it meaningful.

Tradition itself, in times of dogmatism and dogmatic revolution, is a revolutionary force which must be safeguarded.

Many audiences all over the world will answer positively from their own experience that they have seen the face of the invisible through an experience on the stage that transcended their experience in life. They will maintain that Oedipus or Berenice or Hamlet or The Three Sisters performed with beauty and with love fires the spirit and gives them a reminder that daily drabness is not necessarily all.

It takes a long while for a director to cease thinking in terms of the result he desires and instead concentrate on discovering the source of energy in the actor from which true impulses arise.

Reality' is a word with many meanings.

You have to live to the responsibility of the person who has won, which is even greater than the responsibility of a person who has lost.

There are prophets, there are guides, and there are argumentative people with theories, and one must be careful to discriminate between them.