It seems to me that we are profoundly ignorant of ourselves

I'm not interested in an imaginary world

I think there is no world without theatre.

We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.

If you engage people on a vital, important level, they will respond.

I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future.

In the end I think theatre has only one subject: justice

Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of consumerism.

Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur.

The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies.

We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins.

Live simply so others may simply live

Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can't help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won't want to worry.

Antwone's story was a story of hope and that's what appealed to me. I needed hope myself at that time. I think all actors give up at some time and think they're never going to make it.

A woman findeth in her last lover much of her first love; but a man seeth his next-to-the-last love, alway.

The definition of a page-turner really aught to be that this page is so good, you can't bear to leave it behind, but then the next page is there and it might be just as amazing as this one.

For me as an actor, it's really fun to play someone who's not human.

It's a cliche that filmmaking is a team sport. However, let me say just say it again: filmmaking is a team sport.

Clip your year-end column and put it away for 10 years. See if you don’t feel like an idiot when you reread it.

Truly the gods have not from the beginning revealed all things to mortals, but by long seeking, mortals discover what is better.