The Author is a play about responsibility, how active we are as spectators and how responsible we are for what we choose to look at.

A child knows when they are on the receiving end of a didactic exercise, or when they are sitting in the shadow of something else.

I'm attracted to the underrated characters.

The Author is subtly unflinching in its satirical attack on certain practices in the creation of art and the mediation of violence.

Theatre critics have no special access to the truth. And there should be no objective truth to art.

Unease is not an emotion I get often in the theatre, and I like it.

As actors, we do our best to keep things light and to encourage in the audience an openness to the changing atoms in the room.

I am particularly interested in creating a relationship between ideas of reception in conceptual art and theater.

Uncertainty is a very good thing: it's the beginning of an investigation, and the investigation should never end.

It's important to find characters that share sympathy with a young audience, not just in the story but their role in the world.

All too often, our elegant political theories amount to nothing more than ideology triumphing over common sense.

It troubles him to consider the powerful currents and fine-tuning that alter fate, the close and distant influences, the accidents of character and circumstance.

Trees are the earth's example of beauty, duty, wisdom and happiness.

It's good that it hurts. Pain is the signal that you're confused, that you're in a lie.

The longest sentence you can form with two words is: I do.

I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.

If you look at the history of big obstacles in understanding our world, there's usually an intuitive assumption underlying them that's wrong.

The real question is how do you stay funny in your 70s and 80s? And that's a real accomplishment, you know, the longevity.

Compose. (No ideas but in things) Invent! Saxifrage is my flower that splits the rocks.

Tell him to live by yes and no - yes to everything good, no to everything bad.