For some strange reason, we believe that anyone who lived before we were born was in some peculiar way a different kind of human being from any we have come in contact with in our own lifetime. This concept must be changed; we must realize in our bones that almost everything in time and history has changed except the human being.

no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.

Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.

Thoughts and feelings are suspended in a vacuum unless they instigate and feed the selected actions, and it is the characters actions which reveal the character in the play.

The knowledge that every day there is something more to learn, something higher to reach for, something new to make for others, makes each day infinitely precious

It must be noted that it is often the colleague or direct disciple of a new thinker who gets stuck in literal interpretations of the work, tending to freeze the new ideas and language into an inflexible, static condition.

To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.