Actually I think 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' could sit very very perfectly in the middle of a Disney world I think.

Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face up to the darker elements of his personality.

Hamlet and Victor Frankenstein are each obsessed with death. Hamlet's whole story is a philosophical preparation for death; Victor's is an intellectual refusal to accept it.

It doesn't mean old or younger. I've learned a lot from people much younger than me as well as people much older than me. So I think it's about honesty and generosity.

We're self obsessed and mad and stupid - not that other people can't be the same way - but the extremes are kind of honest in some mad way. Anyway, I like them.

My definition of success is control.

I come from the theatre, my bones are in the theatre; it’s as natural as breathing to want to be in the theatre

The glory of 70mm is the sharpness of the image it offers.

There is some mysterious thing that goes on whereby, in the process of playing Shakespeare continuously, actors are surprised by the way the language actually acts on them.

I don't think Hamlet is mad, nor is he predisposed to be a gloomy or tragic figure.

Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes.

I would ask something more of this world, if it had something more.

A people inspired by democracy, human rights and economic opportunity will turn their back decisively against extremism.

Abe said, where do you want this killing done? God said, out on highway 61.

I play blues, sure, but don't call me a bluesman

Knowing that something is wrong and doing it anyway happens very often in life, and I doubt I will ever know why.

Physical contact is a human necessity.

A tennis racket makes a great fake guitar!

The woman was sane; she accepted the heavy penalties of reality and enjoyed its gifts also.

The problem is that many times people suspend their common sense because they get drowned in business models and Harvard business school teachings.