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.

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

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.

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.

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

When I was at Stratford, the very first thing that I was commissioned to work on was trying to make a musical out of the documentary material about the General Strike, which was the next big historical event in England, after the First World War.