I have an enormous appetite to see life as I know it presented in front of my eyes.

I never grew up thinking, 'One day I will play so and so' because I wasn't expecting to be an actor at all.

If my relation to each and every peasant in Cambodia is indeed exactly what the principles of morality would demand it to be, it's a miraculous coincidence, because it takes a lot of effort to behave correctly in regard to my friends, and from one end of the year to another I never give those peasants a single thought.

I wrote my first play at the age of 10, 55 years ago, and I've always found it a fantastic relief to imagine I know what things would be like from the point of view of other individuals and to send out signals from where I actually am not. Playwrights never need to write from the place where they are.

The life of an actor can be very enviable.

We're in an emergency situation. The United States has become an absolutely terrifying country, and I would hope that I could participate in some way in stopping the horror and the brutality.

It's obviously a characteristic of human beings that we like to feel superior to others, but our problem is we are not superior