There are times in my 30 years in the theater that I have come perilously close to losing faith in the one form of action I have in this life.

My life had been defined by the apartheid years. Now we were going into an era of democracy... and I believed that I didn't really have a function as a useful artist in that anymore.

Theater will never, and never has, gotten audiences like film. But theater goes to work on society in a different and more subversive way.

A very close friend of mine keeps reminding me that since about the age of 50, I've been saying, 'I'm finished. I haven't got another one in me.' But somehow you do.

People come to the Fountain Theatre because they've got hearts that are working and they've got heads that are working. They use the Fountain Theatre because it puts them in touch with the world that they're living in.

I've had one experience of writer's block in my life, and it was living hell. It was a terror for me.