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

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.

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

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

What you're doing is putting into professional play the way that you relate to other people, the way that you analyze and relate to a written text, the way that you would persuade anybody to do anything. It has to do with listening, with humility and a sense of yourself.

I've experienced a private doubt, something that I've kept deeply inside, and then eventually delivered a piece of work that people responded to with huge enthusiasm.

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.