If you can't fully believe in your ideas, it very quickly communicates to a group of actors who need something to hold onto. They need to believe that whatever criticism, whatever comment is received, is meant.

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

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

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

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

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

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If you're a director, your entire livelihood and your entire creativity is based on your...