We're self obsessed and mad and stupid - not that other people can't be the same way - but the extremes are kind of honest in some mad way. Anyway, I like them.

Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face up to the darker elements of his personality.

Hamlet and Victor Frankenstein are each obsessed with death. Hamlet's whole story is a philosophical preparation for death; Victor's is an intellectual refusal to accept it.

It doesn't mean old or younger. I've learned a lot from people much younger than me as well as people much older than me. So I think it's about honesty and generosity.

My definition of success is control.

I come from the theatre, my bones are in the theatre; it’s as natural as breathing to want to be in the theatre

The glory of 70mm is the sharpness of the image it offers.

There is some mysterious thing that goes on whereby, in the process of playing Shakespeare continuously, actors are surprised by the way the language actually acts on them.

I don't think Hamlet is mad, nor is he predisposed to be a gloomy or tragic figure.

The ferocity of passion that is engendered by people when they don't like what you've done is really tremendous. It's intense.

It isn't a secret, unless keeping it hurts.

Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.

Hold tenderly that which you ♥cherish

Wendy, let me in, I wanna be your friend. I wanna guard your dreams and visions.

That's how it is sometimes--God comes to your window, all bright light and black wings, and you're just too tired to open it.

He had found over the years that silence sometimes yielded more than questions. And so it was this time.

For years, particularly with the advent of the Internet, people have been griping about lessening attention spans.

Isn't there any other part of the matzo you can eat?

What can be avoided Whose end is purposed by the mighty gods?

If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why oh why can't I?