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One fine day I discovered that more complex plays really have to be directed.
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If you can't fully believe in your ideas, it very quickly communicates to a group of actors who need something to hold onto. They need to believe that whatever criticism, whatever comment is received, is meant.
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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 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 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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The film director, in many instances, has to swallow somebody else's decision about the final form of something. It's so hard as to be intolerable.
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The first big break was winning a scholarship to go to Cambridge University. I was very lucky, because my parents couldn't have afforded a university education for me. Without a scholarship I couldn't possibly have gone.
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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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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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