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I tend to arrive in the rehearsal process with very strongly developed ideas about what I want to do. But I don't like those ideas to be things that are not subject to change, or subject to development, or subject to challenge.

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If you're a director, your entire livelihood and your entire creativity is based on your self-confidence. Sometimes that's dangerously close to arrogance.

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In my teens, I developed a passionate idolatry for a teacher of English literature. I wanted to do something that he would approve of more, so I thought I should be some sort of a scholar.

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One fine day I discovered that more complex plays really have to be directed.

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A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is analysis and having a sense of literature.

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I always believe it's better to have 30 imaginations working on a project, rather than one imagination telling the other 29 what to do.

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I had a feeling about Shakespeare's soliloquies, that there should be a real exchange between the actor and the audience.

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I so wanted to perform, and I grasped every opportunity.

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I would be terribly disappointed if anything would get in the way of my being cast in something, or if performances were canceled. It was a fix that I obviously needed.

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I've experienced a private doubt, something that I've kept deeply inside, and then eventually delivered a piece of work that people responded to with huge enthusiasm.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Director

Born: January 14th, 1940

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