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

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.

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.

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

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.

Prayer is a powerful weapon.

To be successful, you need friends. To be very successful, you need enemies.

Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution

The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.

Since I first started playing basketball, I have just loved it, and nothing has ever made me lose that love.

Foolish tongues talke by the dozen.

Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out there.

My camera is my compass; it's guided me to so many different places.

A tendency toward enthusiasm and a chivalrous instinct have more than once been weighed as evidence of a lack of judgment.

The most difficult part of any endeavour is taking the first step, making the first decision.