You have to live to the responsibility of the person who has won, which is even greater than the responsibility of a person who has lost..

Drama is exposure; it is confrontation; it is contradiction and it leads to analysis, construction, recognition and eventually to an awakening of und….

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 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….

The work of a director can be summed up in two very simple words. Why and How..

Many audiences all over the world will answer positively from their own experience that they have seen the face of the invisible through an experienc….

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

Nothing in theatre has any meaning before or after. Meaning is now..

Preparing a character is the opposite of building-it is a demolishing, removing brick by brick everything in the actor's muscles, ideas and inhibitio….

We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him -- if he is relaxed, open and attuned, then the invisible will take ….

The purpose of theatre is... making an event in which a group of fragments are sudde nly brought together... in a community which, by the natural la….

Theatres, actors, critics and public are interlocked in a machine that creaks but never stops. There is always a new season in hand and we are to bus….

A stage space has two rules: (1) Anything can happen and (2) Something must happen..

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 i….

Shakespeare doesn't belong to the past. If his material is valid, it is valid now. It's like coal. The only meaningfulness of a piece of coal starts ….

I've always worked a bit like a cook in a big restaurant, where you've got lots and lots of things laid out and you go and look into one cauldron and….

Time, which is so often an enemy in life, can also become our ally if we see how a pale moment can lead to a glowing moment, and then turn to a momen….

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 e….

Tradition itself, in times of dogmatism and dogmatic revolution, is a revolutionary force which must be safeguarded..

There are prophets, there are guides, and there are argumentative people with theories, and one must be careful to discriminate between them..

Now what is earth, what are you rubbing in directing?.