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

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.

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 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.

Jesus said our souls are more valuable than all the rest of the world put together.

Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.

Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there's the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in.

The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is no story.

It's 45 minutes after the game right now and I still don't want to take this jersey off. That's because I know that when I do it'll be for the last time.

To conform within rational limits to a given style is no more servile than to pay one's taxes or to write according to the rule of grammar.

She wanted to feel safe. Untouchable in her home. The ultimate female fantasy.

Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.

The reason we must put on the whole armor of God is to withstand evil. We don't war against people, but against a spiritual hierarchy of invisible power.