Normally when people ask me what I do I say I'm an actor, and that's what I always wanted to be and that's the way I approach work even when I'm directing it.

Ultimately, theatre takes place in the minds of the audience: they all imagine the same thing at the same time.

The only reality of the theater exists in the mind of the audience. That audience looks collectively at what is going on on the stage and collectively imagines that this is real.

I mean I'm talking about playing games, about imagining other people, and it's part of the way that it helps you actually see the world.

We try to place the human body in relation to the image all the time, so it's never a kind of a backdrop, but it's more of ...a much more integrative experience.

I think it was a desire to be able to find my own voice. I think that was the big urge within me.

Yes it was chaos, working through chaos, you never quite knew what you were going to do each day, but you knew that you wanted to make something.

I can't remember a single year of my life when I haven't made a piece of theatre.

The more they uncover the more mystery appears to be there.

I've had various people close to me die, and I don't necessarily find the idea of death purely depressing.

I remember the fact that milk was delivered every day by a milkman. In summer, my mother would make what now seem in my middle-aged imagination the most delicious iced milkshakes.

Going down 6% grades using only a hand brake and low gears wasn’t for sissies and, in retrospect, might have been for idiots.

New York makes one think of the collapse of civilization, about Sodom and Gomorrah, the end of the world. The end wouldn't come as a surprise here. Many people already bank on it.

Full participation in government and society has been a basic right of the country symbolizing the full citizenship and equal protection of all.

Digital art software has empowered both the painterly side of photographers, and the photographer side of painters.

True freedom from fear consists of totally resigning one's life into the hands of the Lord.

Well, of course, people are only human... But it really does not seem much for them to be.

The fate of a nation depends on the way that they eat.

A few drinks later you're not so choosy when the closing lights strip off the shadows on this strange new flesh you've found.

It's not the note you play that's the wrong note - it's the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.

I'm both challenged and excited. My excitement is: I get a chance to give something back. My challenge is: The shortest seminar I usually do is 50 hours.