Theatre critics have no special access to the truth. And there should be no objective truth to art.

The Author is a play about responsibility, how active we are as spectators and how responsible we are for what we choose to look at.

A child knows when they are on the receiving end of a didactic exercise, or when they are sitting in the shadow of something else.

I'm attracted to the underrated characters.

The Author is subtly unflinching in its satirical attack on certain practices in the creation of art and the mediation of violence.

Unease is not an emotion I get often in the theatre, and I like it.

As actors, we do our best to keep things light and to encourage in the audience an openness to the changing atoms in the room.

I am particularly interested in creating a relationship between ideas of reception in conceptual art and theater.

Uncertainty is a very good thing: it's the beginning of an investigation, and the investigation should never end.

It's important to find characters that share sympathy with a young audience, not just in the story but their role in the world.

Hide your craziness behind a beautiful smile. That's all you need.

Gold authenticity can only be tested under maximum fire. The same holds true with regard to manhood.

Out of suffering comes creativity

Not aptitude....attitude is the criterion for success.

It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all.

Birth and death we all move between these two unknowns.

Everyone who does the best he can is a hero.

Clearly it was time to consider rescheduling that optometrist appointment I'd missed last fall.

Before we can study the central issues of life today, we must destroy the prejudices and fallacies born of previous centuries.

The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thankfing God.