We all come to the theater with baggage; The baggage of our daily lives, the baggage of our problems, the baggage of our tragedies, the baggage of being tired. It doesn't matter what age you are. But if our hearts get opened and released - well, that's what theater can do, and does sometimes, and everyone is thankful when that happens.

An awful lot of filmmaking and playmaking is taken over by marketers and publicists, who set about to tell people what to think. And people feel safer that way. But it's not safe, and the whole wonderful thing that cinema and filmmakers can contribute is to go into the not-safe land of real life.

The people I admire most are those who struggle for everyone.

We will always want films ... that basically are centred on young people, because young people is the way we live on, we older people, insofar as we live on.

Ask the right questions if you're going to find the right answers.

The arts stop society going rotten and mad.

Theater helps people keep sane.