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 had a feeling about Shakespeare's soliloquies, that there should be a real exchange between the actor and the audience.

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

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 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.

I've never had any feeling of disconnection between the classical theater, or the contemporary theater, or musical theater, or the thing that we call opera.