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

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.

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.

Don't Worry Be Happy

Wow!” gasped Julia. They saw 20 or more young children of every sort lyingon the cold, bare ground.

Make time to relax, refresh and refocus.

You may only be a small musical note in the realms of life, but together with others you make a symphony.

Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure.

Dad taught me everything I know, but he would never tell me anything he knew.

Was it my fault that I got out of hand? --Loki

Under popular culture's obsession with a naive inclusion, everything is O.K.

I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.