The primary function of a theatre is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.

Theater going is a communal act, movie going a solitary one.

No enlightened person would deny its premise, but as an ongoing program it is monotonous, limited, locked in a perception of victimization.

Without an elite in the arts, we have no leaders, which is to say we have no vision, which is to say we have no arts.

The love that previously dared not speak its name has now grown hoarse from screaming it.

The invention of film has given our generation the dubious advantage of watching our acting heroes deteriorate before our eyes.

Power is the ability to do good things for others.

Minimalism in interior design has become a caricature. Everywhere you find shops or hotels with an ambience that makes you feel like you are in a refrigerator.

Nah, I don't watch TV either, apart from a few sports programmes. I just don't have the time.

But I wonder where we will land if trial judges begin deciding that the fact that a man has committed an atrocious crime is proof sufficient that he is not responsible for his acts.

If you believe in light, you'll be in light, you don't have to face darkness.

Crowds of people moved through the streets with a dream-like violence.

And these are joys, like beauty, but skin deep.

Criticism is the essence of creation.

The faith to step out is worthless without the faithfulness to stick it out.