I can't remember a single year of my life when I haven't made a piece of theatre.

Ultimately, theatre takes place in the minds of the audience: they all imagine the same thing at the same time.

The only reality of the theater exists in the mind of the audience. That audience looks collectively at what is going on on the stage and collectively imagines that this is real.

Normally when people ask me what I do I say I'm an actor, and that's what I always wanted to be and that's the way I approach work even when I'm directing it.

I mean I'm talking about playing games, about imagining other people, and it's part of the way that it helps you actually see the world.

We try to place the human body in relation to the image all the time, so it's never a kind of a backdrop, but it's more of ...a much more integrative experience.

I think it was a desire to be able to find my own voice. I think that was the big urge within me.

Yes it was chaos, working through chaos, you never quite knew what you were going to do each day, but you knew that you wanted to make something.

The more they uncover the more mystery appears to be there.

I've had various people close to me die, and I don't necessarily find the idea of death purely depressing.

I remember the fact that milk was delivered every day by a milkman. In summer, my mother would make what now seem in my middle-aged imagination the most delicious iced milkshakes.

I have always been afraid... Always been pretending to follow you closely, alwyas been pretending to sharpen my teeth, when the truth is, I am ... scared to death just treading on your shadow.

And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.

Stare. It is the way to educate your eye, and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.

While the resurrection promises us a new and perfect life in the future, God loves us too much to leave us alone to contend with the pain, guilt and loneliness of our present life.

St. Thomas is really a great man quite apart from his saintliness.

For a genius to be a genius, he must have a selfless slave between himself and the world.

As Mark Twain said, 'I love Wagner -- if only they'd cut out all that damned singing!'

What I mean is that conservatives are in a constant state of hair-on-fire, yelling anger.

My autobiography is one of the truest, most frankly written books ever published in the western hemisphere.

Beauty’s all around me right here. It’s not in a textbook. It’s not in an equation. I mean, take the sunlight … The colors flow into your lungs, into your bloodstream. You are the colors.