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I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

Theater publicly reveals the human condition through appealing to both intellect and emotion. Architecture, whether lowly or exalted, can do the same.

All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.

I think theatricality is just one way of performing. I don't think it's a better way or the way, but it's my way.

What's exciting about theatre is observing human behaviour. You're constantly making judgments about body language, the physical, the emotional, the intellectual.

A theater person should know what holds an audience and what does not.

People always make that mistake when they talk about theatre - the notion of the 'theatrical' meaning something separate from life. If it doesn't relate to life, it doesn't relate to anything.

The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.

To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you're always trying to understand character and motives.