If you've done a brilliant version it becomes something else.

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.

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.

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.

In grief more than in joy, man longs to know that the universe turns around him.

I'm gonna really enjoy bringing out the catsuit once in a while.

I majored in directing. However, I did spend some time at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, so I am somewhat well-versed in African Studies.

The course is so long, I had to take the curvature of the Earth into consideration.

Sincerity doesn't mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere.

I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice.

It's important to show that, while authorizing the demonstrations and promoting diversity of opinion, the Republic can't allow itself to be undermined from within.

The earth yields up her stores, of every ill The instigators; iron, foe to man, And gold, than iron deadlier.

My wife Ricky is my muse. Her personal style and natural beauty have always been my inspiration.

Don't touch me! Don't question me! Don't speak to me! Stay with me!