An icon painter starts not with Jesus Christ but by finding earth and rubbing. Now what is earth, what are you rubbing in directing?

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

The purpose of theatre is... making an event in which a group of fragments are sudde nly brought together... in a community which, by the natural laws that make every community, gradually breaks up... At certain moments this fragmented world comes together and for a certain time it can rediscover the marvel of organic life ... The marvel of being one.

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

A stage space has two rules: (1) Anything can happen and (2) Something must happen.

Drama is exposure; it is confrontation; it is contradiction and it leads to analysis, construction, recognition and eventually to an awakening of understanding.

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