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

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 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.

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.

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.

Experience teaches us the events of a lifetime.

If you don't see something beautiful, change your viewpoint.

I was a little cross.I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep it up.

The thought of hurting him ripped me apart. Ripped me so totally, that I knew, I cared more for him than I did myself.

Truly speaking -finding happiness is to do with being selfish, but that doesn't mean true selfish

I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.

Lay not on any soul a load that you would not wish to be laid upon you, and desire not for any one the things you would not desire for yourself.

Credit is the air that financial markets breathe, and when the air is poisoned, there's no place to hide.

Embrace nothing: If you meet the Buddha, kill the Buddha. If you meet your father, kill your father. Only live your life as it is, Not bound to anything.

When I experience something or feel something, that's kind of transferred to the audience. There's a lot of great breakthrough moments that come out of that.