In the theatre, we're all charlatans and liars and scavengers and fly-by-nights.

In my opinion, there's nothing new in the theatre, ever. Theatre-makers are thieves, in the honourable tradition of charlatans. They fake it very, very well indeed for the entertainment of everybody else.

Theatre is about the collective imagination... Everything I use on-stage is driven by the subject matter and what you might call the text - but that text can be anything, from a fragment of movement or music to something you see on a TV.

'The Magic Flute,' I think, is fundamentally asking what is it to change people's consciousness.

I was keen to stage 'Faust,' although I find Goethe's 'Faust' indigestible.

Infinity is a way to describe the incomprehensible to the human mind. In a way, it notates a mystery. That kind of mystery exists in relationships. A lifetime is not enough to know someone else. It provides a brief glimpse.