I've just taken the decision that I'm going to now go full time back into the theater.

A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is analysis and having a sense of literature.

The first big break was winning a scholarship to go to Cambridge University. I was very lucky, because my parents couldn't have afforded a university education for me. Without a scholarship I couldn't possibly have gone.

The film director, in many instances, has to swallow somebody else's decision about the final form of something. It's so hard as to be intolerable.

One fine day I discovered that more complex plays really have to be directed.

Peter Hall was just organizing the Royal Shakespeare Company. It was going to be an ensemble, it was going to be in repertory, it was going to have a home in London as well as in the Midlands, and all of those things were happening at that time.

The thing that I had saved up for myself and wanted most to bring off was a fully fledged professional production of Hamlet at the Royal Shakespeare Theater in Stratford.