I wanted to have a place and a space, and a building, in which to create a season of work I am here because the idea of a theatrical home is very appealing to me

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.

I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.

I live my life progressing for nothing else but the best.

I just write whenever I can.

Even noteworthy performance attainments do not necessarily boost perceived self-efficacy

And with that answer, he left me. I would much rather he had knocked me down.

I am speechless: I have no speech

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

All hopes are lies, all expectations of the future are lies.

Some of you may have met mathematicians and wondered how they got that way.

I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law