Love happens when we pay attention

- Declan Donnellan

If every auditorium were razed to the ground, theatre would still survive, because the hunger in each of us to act and be acted to, is genetic. This …

- Declan Donnellan

For we direct, perform and witness performances every night – theatre cannot die before the last dream has been dreamt.

- Declan Donnellan

Our shock that reality is other than expected is weirdly tenacious

- Declan Donnellan

Acting is a reflex, a mechanism for development and survival. . . . It isn't 'second nature,' it is 'first nature.'

- Declan Donnellan

But we never tell the truth. We cannot properly 'tell' the truth, because our words are crude tools to express something, 'the truth', which may well…

- Declan Donnellan