I don't direct the plays of others.

I began coming to Paris in the 1960s when I was told audiences here liked my work. More than 20 of my plays have been produced in Paris, and several have had long runs and have returned in revivals.

Any actor, any playwright who's worked a life in the theater knows how to do things cheaply and quickly. It's just all by necessity. Invention is everything.

Maybe all theatre is going to be irrelevant for all time.

If you prepare, and you've got wonderful, bright people who get it, who accept and appreciate your preparation, then you don't have to explain yourself 9,000 times.

The Holocaust story has been told and retold so many times.

I felt no need to write a German-bashing play.

You simply can't make someone love you if they don't. You must choose someone who already loves you. If you choose someone who does not love you, this is the sort of love you must want.

If you can do nothing else, do whatever is in your power to make the people in your life feel completely unashamed of who they are.

Wow, that was an expensive looking explosion! I can't believe we had that in the budget.

You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.

To live - is that not enough?

Everyone always dies for his country. If you have lived in it, well and wisely and actively, you die for it too.

For a long time I did not want to do television because I did not want to get stuck playing the same person. I wanted the ongoing challenge of a variety of roles.

The media works in sound bites. They can make you look like a genius or stupid.

Drama criticism ... is a self-knowing account of the way in which one's consciousness has been modified during an evening at the theatre.

I'm just trying to really take it one day at a time, because for me - and I know this sounds cliche, whatever - I achieved my ultimate goal, and nothing can really top that, you know?

He must needs go that the devil drives.