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Shakespeare and his work will always be relevant. He wrote those pieces hundreds of years ago and we haven't really changed as humans, have we? We have to deal with love, honour and adultery now - people were the same then, too - that's what's so wonderful and powerful.

With Shakespeare, because you invest so much time in working on material, it always sort of stays with you to some degree.

To have a sense of contemporary ownership of Shakespeare is the most important thing to his work.

I grew up with Shakespeare, and there are so many wonderful teachings in those plays. The stories are all so unique and timeless. There is just so much learning in that body of work, and that is something I will always go back to.

Each of my Shakespeare pieces is different to the other, but each espouses a set of philosophies common to all my theatre work.

Shakespeare is rich and beautiful, and it can be an amazing experience to read and to watch and to work on.

Anything one can do to provoke and inspire an interest in the works of Shakespeare in a young audience is fair game. Anything.

Shakespeare feels very natural to me.

The reason there's no modern-day Shakespeare is because he didn't have anything to do except sit in a room with a candle and think.

Our understanding of Shakespeare already depends largely on the vitality of Renaissance elements in our education. Each man must live in his own generation, as the saying is; but the generations are bound together by the golden links of the great tradition of civilization.