You have to work with what you are given, even in Shakespeare. we have our form and it is important that we free ourselves through it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If you got what it takes, you'll make it. If you don't, Shakespeare couldn't help you.
Shakespeare shows you what it is possible to do in English as a writer - but also shows you that you might as well give up. As it's all been done before and hundreds of years ago. So I have had that long-standing relationship of oppression and inspiration.
With Shakespeare, because you invest so much time in working on material, it always sort of stays with you to some degree.
You can find more traditional Shakespeare than we do. But what we want to bring to these works is energy, passion, freshness.
I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.
To have a sense of contemporary ownership of Shakespeare is the most important thing to his work.
Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we talk to ourselves... he may teach us how to accept change in ourselves as in others, and perhaps even the final form of change.
With Shakespeare, there's no subtext; you're speaking exactly what you're thinking constantly.
Shakespeare teaches you how to act. You come out of this process as a better actor. It's just the nature of the words he writes.
I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it.