It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.

If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

The arts are the only things that separate us from the other animals. The arts are not decorative. ... They are essential to our comprehension of consciousness and ourselves.

Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.

Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.

The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt that it didn't matter.

Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf means who's afraid of the big bad wolf ... who's afraid of living life without false illusions.

You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?

You gotta have swine to show you where the truffles are.

One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand.

School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians

The soul knows its sorrow.

I lost myself in the burden of trying to be your savior.

The fulfillment of the vision is always for the appointed time.

Much else than liberalization has happened in the nineties (in India)

Be humble, if thou would'st attain to wisdom. Be humbler still, when wisdom thou hast mastered.

I don't believe in principle, but I do in interest.

God works according to the law of gradual growth, so don't be discouraged if your progress seems slow.

You can live constrained within the confines of a solely material perspective, or choose instead the infinite field of quantum possibility.

I want to do something challenging and I want to take risks, but above all, I want people to be entertained...Because the only way of talking about some issues sometimes is through humor.

Any additional spotlight you can put onto an opening of a film is a great thing to get.