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"The thing that I had saved up for myself and wanted most to bring off was a fully fledged professional production of Hamlet at the Royal Shakespeare Theater in Stratford."
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"My goal is to read as much as possible books, my dream is to meet the snow person, the storm person and to make something together. I will be the rain, Snowy will be the snow, Stormy will be the storm - it's not so complicated as far I see."

"The sky is the limit only if you have a problem with reaching for the stars."

"One day, she'd find a way to live her life to the fullest. She was sure of it. She just had no idea how she would manage it."

"I seen hundreds of men come by on the road an' on the ranches, with their bindles on their back an' that same damn thing in their heads . . . every damn one of 'em's got a little piece of land in his head. An' never a God damn one of 'em ever gets it. Just like heaven. Ever'body wants a little piece of lan'. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land."

"Although my father had never been there, I came to believe I would someday see that city for him."

"Be willing to constantly travel towards the dreams of your future, and don't be afraid to give up the good for the great."

"Let your dreams keep you hopeful!"

"Life is beautiful dream."

"Life ahead is full of endless opportunities."

"Fear is not my portion, limitation is not my portion for that reason I will dream massive dreams and I will continue to dream until the end of my road."
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"What you're doing is putting into professional play the way that you relate to other people, the way that you analyze and relate to a written text, the way that you would persuade anybody to do anything. It has to do with listening, with humility and a sense of yourself."

"In a way, I have to have a dictatorship. I can't be told that I'm wrong. That conflicts with what I was saying earlier about listening. It isn't to do with receiving criticism and responding to other views, it's who has that last decision."

"The film director, in many instances, has to swallow somebody else's decision about the final form of something. It's so hard as to be intolerable."

"I had a feeling about Shakespeare's soliloquies, that there should be a real exchange between the actor and the audience."

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

"When I was at Stratford, the very first thing that I was commissioned to work on was trying to make a musical out of the documentary material about the General Strike, which was the next big historical event in England, after the First World War."

"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."

"The first big break was winning a scholarship to go to Cambridge University. I was very lucky, because my parents couldn't have afforded a university education for me. Without a scholarship I couldn't possibly have gone."

"When I was 13 years old, a professional theater company in my town needed a kid actor. I auditioned, and I got the part, so for just a few weeks I became a member of the company and I met some professional actors."

"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."
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