What I do believe is theatre is a medium with a peculiar ability to air vital issues.

Of course 'Hamlet' is a debate about the nature and morality of revenge and whether it is right to do something to assuage your angry feelings.

Books don't exist unless you read them. And it's a two way process - you write the book as you read it and you fill in the gaps. You discover it and you put the marks together and without you doing it they're just marks.

Where licentiousness begins, liberty ends.

The idea that if you are very clever you shouldn't be an actor would be laughable in Russia.

Most good art is left wing. It's a moot point whether there is any good right-wing art.

[P]erfect freedom consists in obeying the dictates of right reason, and submitting to natural law. When a man goes beyond or contrary to the law of nature and reason, he . . . introduces confusion and disorder into society . . . [thus] where licentiousness begins, liberty ends.