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"Shakespeare is the one who gets re-interpreted most frequently."

"Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it."

"We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare."

"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."

"What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet?"

"I couldn't believe verse was supposed to be hard. It was a snap for me. I loved Shakespeare."

"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."

"Shakespeare was not meant for taverns, nor for tavern louts."

"I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it."
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"Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other."

"Each organism, no matter how simple or complex, has around it a sacred bubble of space, a bit of mobile territoriality which only a few other organisms are allowed to penetrate and then only for short periods of time."

"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."

"It's amazing. I can't believe how brilliant the whole thing is - my daughter, Georgia, is just wonderful."

"We felt that although they were patchy, there was a tremendous political energy in the Henry plays."

"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."
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