Tyrone Guthrie Quotes

Directing is to fill anyone with a yearning to get back at ten o'clock next morning.

Astonish me in the morning!

Work can only be universal if it is rooted in a part of its creator which is most privately and particularly himself.

Women to whom one has just been introduced think that it breaks the ice if they scream, 'Goodness, you're tall!' How would they like it if I broke the ice first, by screaming 'Goodness, what thick ankles!' or 'Goodness, what a bust!

That your own interpretation of a work of art is flagrantly subjective seems to be regarded as an arrogant attitude. But the truer view is that the interpretative artist can only make his own comment upon the work.