In no other city in the world do you see what's happening in Moscow. In no other country is there so much theater construction.

Repertory theater allows you to spend your whole life perfecting yourself.

Brecht said it, 'It's an unhappy country that needs heroes. That's true. They are not needed in a normal nation.

In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.

For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.

We had to punish this industry in such a way that everybody in this country and everybody in the world would recognize that they had paid a higher price than any other,