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.

Awards don't really mean much.

I have disassociated myself from that book.

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

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

I love playing Chekhov. That's the hardest; that's why I love it most.

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