The only reality of the theater exists in the mind of the audience. That audience looks collectively at what is going on on the stage and collectively imagines that this is real.

Ultimately, theatre takes place in the minds of the audience: they all imagine the same thing at the same time.

Normally when people ask me what I do I say I'm an actor, and that's what I always wanted to be and that's the way I approach work even when I'm directing it.

I mean I'm talking about playing games, about imagining other people, and it's part of the way that it helps you actually see the world.

We try to place the human body in relation to the image all the time, so it's never a kind of a backdrop, but it's more of ...a much more integrative experience.

I think it was a desire to be able to find my own voice. I think that was the big urge within me.

Yes it was chaos, working through chaos, you never quite knew what you were going to do each day, but you knew that you wanted to make something.

I can't remember a single year of my life when I haven't made a piece of theatre.

The more they uncover the more mystery appears to be there.

I've had various people close to me die, and I don't necessarily find the idea of death purely depressing.

I remember the fact that milk was delivered every day by a milkman. In summer, my mother would make what now seem in my middle-aged imagination the most delicious iced milkshakes.

People having a victim complex invite someone to tease them into their lives though they could have mutually beneficial relationships

Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty.

Measures of sterilization should, in my opinion, be very definitely confined to persons who are mentally defective

I've been complimented enough and asked to run for various offices out here in Utah, but right now, I'm not interested. I don't know that I have the stomach for it.

Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.

You should write a book," Ron told Hermione as he cut up his potatoes, "translating mad things girls do so boys can understand them.

Is there world enough for me?

Fairness is giving all people the treatment they earn and deserve. It doesn't mean treating everyone alike.

Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.

I took up violin because my best mate had taken it up, so I did likewise.