The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary.

Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face up to the darker elements of his personality.

Hamlet and Victor Frankenstein are each obsessed with death. Hamlet's whole story is a philosophical preparation for death; Victor's is an intellectual refusal to accept it.

It doesn't mean old or younger. I've learned a lot from people much younger than me as well as people much older than me. So I think it's about honesty and generosity.

We're self obsessed and mad and stupid - not that other people can't be the same way - but the extremes are kind of honest in some mad way. Anyway, I like them.

My definition of success is control.

I come from the theatre, my bones are in the theatre; it’s as natural as breathing to want to be in the theatre

The glory of 70mm is the sharpness of the image it offers.

There is some mysterious thing that goes on whereby, in the process of playing Shakespeare continuously, actors are surprised by the way the language actually acts on them.

I don't think Hamlet is mad, nor is he predisposed to be a gloomy or tragic figure.

I think part of my purpose in this life is to talk about magic, and to make it.

Once upon a time Karen saw somebody nobody else could see. She thought to ask an old man: who were you? Once upon a time I thought to dream of medicine. Now I dream of medicine by the sea.

Your opponent's wrong doesn't automatically make you right. Most fights aren't about who's right

I have this fascination with being on the road, all things music, and the '70s. My favorite movie is 'Almost Famous.'

A theoretical grounding in agronomy must, therefore, include knowledge of biological laws.

Anyone can make them cry, but it takes a genius to make them laugh.

We had discovered an accursed country. We had found the Home of the Blizzard.

When you get down to the nitty gritty, isn't it a pity that in this big city not one little bitty man will admit that he could have been a little wrong.

The only test of work of literature is that it shall please other ages than its own.

Automating a mess yields an automated mess.