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Basically, theater or film is a dangerous industrial environment.

I think any actor would agree that you can't replace theater. It's immediate. You have the energy of the crowd and every single night it's different.

Theatre's a whole different beast to film. It requires a lot more of you.

The point of theatre is transformation: to make an extraordinary event out of ordinary material right in front of an audience's eyes. Where the germ of the idea came from is pretty much irrelevant. What matters to every theatre maker I know is speaking clearly to the audience 'right now.'

Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.

Theatre is a series of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster.

The theater is a tough place. It's not cushioned the way it is in film and television.

A theatre is the most important sort of house in the world because that's where people are shown what they could be if they wanted and what they'd like to be if they dared to and what they really are.

In my opinion, there's nothing new in the theatre, ever. Theatre-makers are thieves, in the honourable tradition of charlatans. They fake it very, very well indeed for the entertainment of everybody else.

What I do believe is theatre is a medium with a peculiar ability to air vital issues.