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All the great Shakespeare plays are about killing. 'Alas, poor Yorick,' that's about death. And in 'Romeo and Juliet' everyone up ends up dying. The greatest dramas in the world are all about sex, violence and death.

If you read Shakespeare's stage directions, all the gore and violence is right in there.

It's extremely dangerous to compare anyone else to Shakespeare.

Shakespeare is all big themes, like the most amazing love, or the most scary war.

Shakespeare is universal.

I'm much more likely to get lynched over 'The Killing' than 'Macbeth.'

The greatest of all crimes are the wars that are carried on by governments, to plunder, enslave, and destroy mankind.

I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent.

Tales of power and ambition and intrigue and betrayal and desire - when you're telling those in a big way, you automatically want to go to Shakespeare.

As for sex, well, I mean sex is a perfectly respectable subject as far as Shakespeare is concerned. I mean, all history is love and violence.