The fixation of the theater in one language--written words, music, lights, noises--betokens its imminent ruin.

A real theatrical experience shakes the calm of the senses, liberates the compressed unconscious and drives towards a kind of potential revolt . . .

No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.

The actor is an athlete of the heart.

There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.

I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself

To break through language in order to touch life is to create or re-create the theater.

I abandon myself to the fever of dreams, in search for new laws.

I have need of angels. Enough hell has swallowed me for too many years. But finally understand this--I have burned up one hundred thousand human lives already, from the strength of my pain.

This is why true beauty never strikes us directly. The setting sun is beautiful because of all it makes us lose.

Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.

Writing isn't only about a completed piece of work.It’s about the writer you’re becoming while creating.

A melancholy lesson of advancing years is the realisation that you can't make old friends.

We're not quitting until I'm satisfied you know what you're doing, " he said in a low voice."Until we're both satisfied, " she corrected. Killing. Him.

I wonder if being sane means disregarding the chaos that is life, pretending only an infinitesimal segment of it is reality.

Show me where Stalin is buried and I'll show you a Communist Plot.

There's a focus that hasn't been there for ages and ages and some American bands are sounding quite English like they did in the late 70s and early 80s.

As humans we like to laugh at our fears, we like to whistle in the dark.

We always try to make the very best movie when we're working on and we can only think one at a time. We want to make this a perfect jewel, and then we'll see what happens after that.

Those who attempt nothing themselves think every thing easily performed, and consider the unsuccessful always as criminal.

Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about.