Pastoral Resources

We are suffocated by writers who want to enlighten us with their truths. For me, the theatre is beautiful because it is a secret, and secrets seduce us, we all want to share secrets.

When I write, I am not giving a lecture, I am speculating on behavior. Sometimes this is dangerous, but it should be. As I say often, theatre is a dark place and we should keep the light out of it.

For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture.

I love the stage, I love the process of acting in theatre, but unfortunately, it doesn't pay the bills.

When I first saw a Fellini movie, I came out of the movie theatre and decided to become a lawyer! I thought to myself, it's impossible to make something so beautiful!

Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.

I don't rehearse films as much as opera or theatre. When I began directing films I thought a long rehearsal was a good idea. Experience showed me that the best performance was often left in a rehearsal room.

In the theatre the audience wants to be surprised - but by things that they expect.

For the theatre one needs long arms... an artiste with short arms can never make a fine gesture.

The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.

The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd.

Most Americans would agree that Plowshares is a Theatre of the Absurd.

Despite a large body of work in films, TV, theatre and concerts, I am viewed by many as a Jewish artist. I do not resent the label, except for the fact that I disapprove of labels in general.

Choosing to be in the theatre was a way to put my roots down somewhere with other people. It was a way to choose a new family.

My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.

The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do in five years' time? A completely different attitude.

This film business, perhaps more so in America than in Europe, has always been about young sexuality. It's not true of theatre, but in America, film audiences are young. It's not an intellectual cinema in America.

What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!

I feel like I've been marinated in Australian theatre.

It's a real leveller, you know, to do theatre at least once every two years.