I think that one of the beautiful things about theatre - and a place like 'Powerhouse' - is that who you are is informing your work. There's actually no separation from that.
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Theatre is live content, and you can tell if you have worked your audience.
The theater business has allowed me, in a way the movie and TV business has not, to do very, very interesting work. So that's what I do.
That's why I love theatre, because things happen in the moment. I think you work without being conscious that you're working.
Theatre is really difficult, so it's important that you have a director that kind of understands that and is really hands on.
I seem to be constantly confronted by theater professionals who are more or less annoyed by the prospect of structure.
It's important for me, politically, to see that theater isn't just about the powerful.
My work is very popular with performers, and there are theatre people who get what I'm doing and what tradition I'm working in. I'm very grateful to them - they're my people, who understand why I work the way I do.
Theatre can be so patronising. So often, it's just proselytising for the theatre.
I made theater very important in the beginning of my career.
Well, in the theater, I think you're actually more responsible for what is going on onstage as a director than you are in film.
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