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..

I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage..

One view of photography is that it is a zen-like act which captures reality with its pants down - so that the vital click shows the anatomy bare. In ….

I am ready to disclaim my opinion, even of yesterday, even of 10 minutes ago, because all opinions are relative. One lives in a field of influences, ….

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

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

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

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

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….

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….

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….

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..

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

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….

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 ….

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

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

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

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….

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….

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….