The closeness of reality and the distance of myth, because if there is no distance you aren't amazed, and if there is no closeness you aren't moved.

I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage. A man walks across this empty space, whilst someone else is watching him, and this is all that is needed for an act of theatre to be engaged.

A stage space has two rules: (1) Anything can happen and (2) Something must happen.

Drama is exposure; it is confrontation; it is contradiction and it leads to analysis, construction, recognition and eventually to an awakening of understanding.

It takes a long while for a director to cease thinking in terms of the result he desires and instead concentrate on discovering the source of energy in the actor from which true impulses arise.

The work of rehearsal is looking for meaning and then making it meaningful.

The work of a director can be summed up in two very simple words. Why and How.

Nothing in theatre has any meaning before or after. Meaning is now.

A word does not start as a word – it is an end product which begins as an impulse, stimulated by attitude and behaviour which dictates the need for expression.

In the theatre, every form once born is mortal; every form must be reconceived, and its new conception will bear the marks of all the influences that surround it.

I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage.

The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future.

The most annoying of all blockheads is a well-read fool.

Just as darkness is sometimes defined as the absence of light, so age is defined as the absence of youth.

People are like vines ... We are born and we grow. Like vines, people also need a tree to cling to, to give them support.

The way to health, harmony, and happiness is primarily mental.

Reason without learning is like the untilled soil, or like the human body that lacks nourishment.

One could pick apart love, examine every filament of attraction, and still it would never be fully explained. It simply was.

Plan B. You've always got to have a Plan B.

I've only been living in England for the last 10 years, if you don't count my student years.

Skepticism is not a denial of belief, but rather a denial of rational grounds for belief.