You are faced with the choice: either my integrity remains intact and this is the work that ends up on the screen, or I have to leave, and I have to be known to have left.

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

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

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

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

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...

In a way, I have to have a dictatorship. I can't be told that I'm...

In a way, I have to have a dictatorship. I can't be told that I'm...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

In the commercial theater, I've been pretty fortunate. The producers that I've worked with have...

In the commercial theater, I've been pretty fortunate. The producers that I've worked with have...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...