I'm a sort of political person, and I feel that there's a kind of ineradicably political dimension to theater, to all theater, whether it's overtly political or not.

In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead.

Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration; in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution.

Respect the delicate ecology of your delusions.

You don't go to the movies to do historical research, unless it's historical research about the movies.

People shouldn't trust artists and they shouldn't trust art. Part of the fun of art is that it invites you to interpret it.

But I still read Shaw on a regular basis. What I love is the nakedness of the polemic and the irresistible good humour. For me, 'Major Barbara' is the greatest of all the plays in that it starts from the rational and proceeds to the ecstatic in a spectacular way, and leaves you very confused if you cling to Euclidean logic.