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"The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary."
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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."
"Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare."
"I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me."
"I couldn't believe verse was supposed to be hard. It was a snap for me. I loved Shakespeare."
"We have cut the text, but what remains are Shakespeare's words."
"Shakespeare was not meant for taverns, nor for tavern louts."
"Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it."
"It is true that there are few plays of Shakespeare that I haven't done."
"What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet?"
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"So many plays with magic in them that would be a terrific invitation to an imaginative animation team."
"We're self obsessed and mad and stupid - not that other people can't be the same way - but the extremes are kind of honest in some mad way. Anyway, I like them."
"I think the best actors are the most generous, the kindest, the greatest people and at their worst they are vain, greedy and insecure."
"I like to cast actors I admire, one's that are talented. Each one will bring something new to the part. This play has been done thousands of times and now certain characters are too familiar."
"The long version of the play is actually an easier version to follow. In all of the cut versions the intense speeches are cut too close together for the audience and the actors."
"The best actors, I think, have a childlike quality. They have a sort of an ability to lose themselves. There's still some silliness."
"I think A Midsummer Night's Dream would be terrific because of the transformations that occur. Or The Tempest, things like that. Extraordinary larger than life or supernatural element."
"Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports."
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