I'd like to direct more operas.

I don't practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation.

To live another person's life is quite a weird thing.

Shakespeare speaks for the human heart but Dickens speaks for the social man and for injustices.

I love storytelling and I love just relating directly to an audience. That's why we do theatre, it's because we love contact with the audience. We love the fact that the audience will change us. The way the audience responds makes us change our performance.

Everything that we have gone through, are going through, and will go through is there in Shakespeare. It is all of human life.

Like many Catholics, I was very affected by the personality of Jesus and that impression, pious as it was, has stayed with me.