I do prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all.

You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition.

I glory in the fact that a human being has multiple talents and exercises them all with a degree of integrity and artistic proficiency. That's what I do.

Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission.

In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

You learn more from the flops than from the hits.