I have found that good taste, oddly enough, plays an important role in politics. Why is it like that? The most probable reason is that good taste is a visible manifestation of human sensibility toward the world, environment, people.

You can't spend your whole life criticizing something and then, when you have the chance to do it better, refuse to go near it.

Hope is the deep orientation of the human soul that can be held at the darkest times.

In my opinion, theater shouldn't give advice to citizens.

The real test of a man is not when he plays the role that he wants for himself but when he plays the role destiny has for him.

If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.

Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness a more humane society will not emerge.