One of the great joys of my job is that you spend a huge amount of time investigating different areas of literature.

I am, in fact, Superman. Every morning I wake up and go into a telephone booth and change my costume, and then go to work.

You go through a process of refinement and getting rid of the excesses of your early youth in terms of your excitement about what theatre can do.

There are a few writers that one has a relationship with that means, basically, you do whatever they say. One is Caryl Churchill, and the other is David Hare.

I'm a theatre person, that's who I am. I'm happy to make sojourns into the world of movies but I'm basically a theatre director that potters off and does a couple of movies.

I have never been motivated by money in my life. You can't make choices based on what the financial return might be.

England is strictly class-based. What's surprising is how many films are still made with a load of people in silly frocks running around gardens and talking in middle-class accents.

At school, I decided I wanted to be a director and then I went out and spent the rest of my adult life trying to be a director. It was really clear to me. So in that sense I was very lucky.

As soon as I know how to do something, I usually get bored with it.

I always say, 'I really need to take a break.' It's three days in and I'm getting pretty bored.

I categorically resist this idea that films are supposed to be autobiographical and the only stories you tell are about your own life.

Complain and remain. Praise and be raised.

Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.

Falling in love with someone doesn’t mean you know any better how they feel. It only means you know how you feel.

We all must learn to dig down deep inside, trust that inner voice, and not be afraid to face and forgive ourselves.

I just sit there and make up songs and sing to [my son] in gibberish. I'm very good at gibberish now.

Individuals can resist injustice, but only a community can do justice.

Performing live is like harvesting your crops and sharing your food with people.

When you draw a crowd of people in a street or room or landscape, decide whether you want to say that the people dominate the place or that the place is more important than the people.

In the present age, a man with harmonious ideas is regarded as out of touch.

LeRoy says there's something you should know, not everybody has a place to go. And home is just a place to hang your head, and dream of things to do in Denver when you're dead.