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 so wanted to perform, and I grasped every opportunity.

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

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

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In my teens, I developed a passionate idolatry for a teacher of English literature. I...

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

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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'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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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...

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I've experienced a private doubt, something that I've kept deeply inside, and then eventually delivered...

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I would be terribly disappointed if anything would get in the way of my being...

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

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A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is...

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If you can't fully believe in your ideas, it very quickly communicates to a group...

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The film director, in many instances, has to swallow somebody else's decision about the final...

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

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