The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment.

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.

Watching teething babies is like watching over a thermonuclear reactor-it is best done in shifts, by well-rested people.

I know my mother so well, so it's hard for me to remember that people have a certain image of her, but they don't really know her personality.

The Spiral Gallery may happen, too. It is not dependent on government funding.

Of course, people will laugh at you, but people laugh at a great many things so there is no need to take it personally.

It's in my nature to feel, 'I could be this! This could be mine!'

Basically, I always go to vintage shops rather than going shopping for new clothes.

I've worked with a lot of directors, some of them you wouldn't really attach the word 'artist' to their name.

Leaving my house and getting on to a red carpet is always crazy for me, because you have to find a way to be comfortable in the most uncomfortable situation imaginable.

All that is literature seeks to communicate power

Religion poisons everything good in this world.