I'm Basically Quite A Cheerful Person.

I Noted About Cate Blanchett Was Her Very Positive Lack Of Concern For How She Turns Out In Cinderella. She Is Happy To Be A Villainess And Very Pleased To Be Encouraged As I Did With Her To Reveal This Backstory And Feel As Though This Was Very Human, That This Broken Heart Of Hers, If You Might Regard It That Way, Would Be Visible, But She Never Played For Sympathy And I Really Admired That About Her, So She's Just There, She Just Is And Uncompromisingly.

I Come From The Theatre, My Bones Are In The Theatre; It’s As Natural As Breathing To Want To Be In The Theatre

I Feel More Irish Than English. I Feel Freer Than British, More Visceral, With A Love Of Language. Shot Through With Fire In Some Way. That's Why I Resist Being Appropriated As The Current Repository Of Shakespeare On The Planet. That Would Mean I'm Part Of The English Cultural Elite, And I Am Utterly Ill-fitted To Be.

It's Very Strange That The People You Love Are Often The People You're Most Cruel To.

I Wanted To Have A Place And A Space, And A Building, In Which To Create A Season Of Work I Am Here Because The Idea Of A Theatrical Home Is Very Appealing To Me