In the commercial theater, I've been pretty fortunate. The producers that I've worked with have allowed me to define the artistic integrity, the artistic limits of the work.

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I've just taken the decision that I'm going to now go full time back into...

I've just taken the decision that I'm going to now go full time back into...

So, through all that early professional career I would occasionally do a musical, a pantomime...

So, through all that early professional career I would occasionally do a musical, a pantomime...

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Peter Hall was just organizing the Royal Shakespeare Company. It was going to be an...

The thing that I had saved up for myself and wanted most to bring off...

The thing that I had saved up for myself and wanted most to bring off...

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I had a feeling about Shakespeare's soliloquies, that there should be a real exchange between...

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I always believe it's better to have 30 imaginations working on a project, rather than...

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You are faced with the choice: either my integrity remains intact and this is the...

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When I was at Stratford, the very first thing that I was commissioned to work...

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I've never had any feeling of disconnection between the classical theater, or the contemporary theater,...

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I tend to arrive in the rehearsal process with very strongly developed ideas about what...

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One fine day I discovered that more complex plays really have to be directed.

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When I was 13 years old, a professional theater company in my town needed a...

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The first big break was winning a scholarship to go to Cambridge University. I was...

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What you're doing is putting into professional play the way that you relate to other...

I so wanted to perform, and I grasped every opportunity.

I so wanted to perform, and I grasped every opportunity.

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In my early years, my father was away as a soldier in the war. When...

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If you feel very deeply about something, it's not possible to sacrifice your integrity about...