In a way, I have to have a dictatorship. I can't be told that I'm wrong. That conflicts with what I was saying earlier about listening. It isn't to do with receiving criticism and responding to other views, it's who has that last decision.

If you feel very deeply about something, it's not possible to sacrifice your integrity about that.

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

I always believe it's better to have 30 imaginations working on a project, rather than one imagination telling the other 29 what to do.

I would be terribly disappointed if anything would get in the way of my being cast in something, or if performances were canceled. It was a fix that I obviously needed.

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

If you're a director, your entire livelihood and your entire creativity is based on your self-confidence. Sometimes that's dangerously close to arrogance.