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.

Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

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.

The ferocity of passion that is engendered by people when they don't like what you've done is really tremendous. It's intense.

Never again will your footsteps b repeated upon this earth. your life is the life that can make a difference.

As a writer one is allowed to have conversations with oneself. What is considered sane in writers is made for the rest of the human race.

Miracles don't happen. You make them happen. They're not wishes or dreams or candles on a cake. They're not impossible. Reality is real. It's totally and completely under my control.

The doctor was not, he thought, really sure that anyone else existed, and wanted to prove they did by helping them.

Noble characters and pure affections and happy scenes are very comforting things. They're a refuge from life's disillusionments.

It's remarkably easy to dig up enormous amounts of information about individuals, without their consent.

Our heroine knew that the mother would always leave the window open for her children to fly back by; so they stayed away for years and had a lovely time.

Hannakins: I know you guys are living out your own private Romeo and Juliet love story, but remember: Both of them die in Act V. -A

Poetry and painting are rooted in the same law, The work of heaven and of the first cause.