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"We have cut the text, but what remains are Shakespeare's words."
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"Jacobean plays, before Shakespeare, were particularly visceral."
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"I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it."
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"Was there ever such stuff as great as part of Shakespeare? Only one must not say so! But what think you? - What? - Is there not sad stuff? What? - What?"
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"We cannot arrive at Shakespeare's whole dramatic way of looking at the world from his tragedies alone, as we can arrive at Milton's way of regarding things, or at Wordsworth's or at Shelley's, by examining almost any one of their important works."
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"It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written."
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"Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world."
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"With Westerns you have the landscape is important, and it's empty, and only you populate it. When you populate it, you can tell any kind story that Shakespeare told, you can tell in a Western."
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"We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare."
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"The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary."
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"I think there's a poet who wrote once a tragedy by Shakespeare, a symphony by Beethoven and a thunderstorm are based on the same elements. I think that's a beautiful line."
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"While trying to protect the republic, the conspirators in Julius Caesar enable Mark Antony to triumph. In Rose Rage, the more Henry VI tries to fix things, the more they go wrong."
Trying
"Theatre is about people, not buildings. Incalculable damage has been done to the expert talent a company needs - from wardrobe to lighting technicians."
Talent
"I was a terrible actor. The analytical part of my mind never quite let go."
Actor
"I wanted to make the violence beautiful in order to heighten our revulsion."
Order
"I'd love to do some new plays."
Love
"We felt that although they were patchy, there was a tremendous political energy in the Henry plays."
Energy
"People come to the theatre to be excited and uplifted - I want to inspire my audience."
People
"It's amazing. I can't believe how brilliant the whole thing is - my daughter, Georgia, is just wonderful."
Daughter
"We have cut the text, but what remains are Shakespeare's words."
Shakespeare
"Normally, an actress has to work to bring out her male side. In our case, the dynamic is reversed. The actor playing her modelled himself on Sharon Stone."
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