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"Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean."

"Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got."

"She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte."
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"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."

"In my teens, I developed a passionate idolatry for a teacher of English literature. I wanted to do something that he would approve of more, so I thought I should be some sort of a scholar."

"I tend to arrive in the rehearsal process with very strongly developed ideas about what I want to do. But I don't like those ideas to be things that are not subject to change, or subject to development, or subject to challenge."

"So, through all that early professional career I would occasionally do a musical, a pantomime or a play with songs. The next stop would be a Shakespeare, or an Ibsen, or a play by a brand new writer who had never done anything in the theater before."

"A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is analysis and having a sense of literature."

"I always believe it's better to have 30 imaginations working on a project, rather than one imagination telling the other 29 what to do."

"If you're a director, your entire livelihood and your entire creativity is based on your self-confidence. Sometimes that's dangerously close to arrogance."
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