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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."
"Jacobean plays, before Shakespeare, were particularly visceral."
"I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me."
"It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written."
"Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world."
"I think Shakespeare had a lot to contribute with his understanding of the human condition."
"What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet?"
"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'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."
"One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face up to the darker elements of his personality."
"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."
"Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports."
"There is some mysterious thing that goes on whereby, in the process of playing Shakespeare continuously, actors are surprised by the way the language actually acts on them."
"Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual meaning is less important than the words themselves."
"So many plays with magic in them that would be a terrific invitation to an imaginative animation team."
"I only really cast people who are desperate to be in it - who were dying to be in it, whose talent I believed in and were dead ready to do the work that was necessary."
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