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" For me, there is a real line between something being the worst thing in the world and the best thing in the world. "

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" Broadway is full of crazy people. "

" I have a personal issue with Shakespeare. When I first encountered him, he made me feel thick. Well, not him, but the productions I saw. "

" The only thing I fear is when people say, 'I should go to the theatre more.' I say, 'We should create work that makes you not have a choice.' "

" One of my favorite things to read in the 'Observer' is the restaurant review by Jay Rayner. I love reading about these restaurants that I won't ever have the time to go to. "

" I was obsessed with theatre and loving the work of Caryl Churchill, Edward Bond, Howard Brenton, and Howard Barker, people doing real formal experimentation. But 'Road' was the first time I'd read a play written in a very true Northern dialect that seemed to have that excitement running through it. "

" My need is about communicating the whole, and when the whole is there in the text and in what the actors are doing, then it doesn't need 'frou-frou,' as I call it. "

" I don't think it's good, culturally, to base all critical judgments on a single performance. "

" When I realised, on 'The Straits,' that physical work in the theatre takes much longer than directing scenes, it was like a eureka moment. If you want to work physically, you have to accommodate it, and it takes a disproportionate amount of time. "

" I studied theatre at Glasgow University and then was lucky enough to land a scholarship with a theatre group in Edinburgh. "

" Whenever I'd seen Greek tragedy done with masks and declamations, it brought me out in a rash. "

" Trump is like an eater of worlds from an 'Avengers' movie, but there seem to be different rules for him. What are Twitter doing, for example? He's constantly breaking their rules, the sort of stuff other people get thrown off for. "

" I suppose what I aspire to do is to make it easy for the audience to connect with a story. "

" It blows my mind that you get Shakespeare where the 'low' comedy characters have got Northern or Welsh accents. "

" I love singing, and I used to perform quite a lot, but now, as a director, you just tend to watch other people perform and tell them what to do. "

" Even with the success of 'Once,' I can't think about making theater straight for Broadway. Too nerve-racking. "

" I tend to work quite a lot during the weekends. My weekend can often be about two hours on Sunday. "

" 'Philistines' was so beautiful, and it bored me to death. I never want to see another production where the rain splashes against a window and actors wander around in drab cardigans saying, 'I'm so bored.' "

" If you're going to be hosting any event or a performance or having dinner with people after a performance, it is work, but it's also social: food and a glass of wine would be involved often. "

" It's very hard to argue with the politics of 'Black Watch,' because it is not an opinion; it is just the true stories of these boys, and any opinions expressed are theirs. "

" Sometimes it should be the job of Broadway to introduce stars as well as cast them. "

" I'll always have a relationship with Scotland. "

" 'Black Watch' has taken its place in the canon of Scottish theatre, and that's fantastic. It's a very particular kind of theatre. It's about the music, the movement, the whole 'event' of it. "

" What has started to interest me is how you use all the different disciplines and tools we have at our disposal, and that includes going into different art forms, like music and movement, because often they can tap into things that characters can't necessarily express through words. Audiences really enjoy that total experience. "

" Theatre is a living organism. You only know if your show is working when you see it with an audience. You can also tell when it isn't working - it's horrible, and you desperately try to figure out how to make it connect. "

" I don't think that just because people will pay a certain amount for a ticket that it's all right to charge it. "

" How do we compete with the 3D superscreens at the cineplex? We just make it better - because theatre is better because it's live. Instead of trying to be like the poor cousin, we need to accept that we're the king. "

" Sometimes on Broadway, you don't know who the investors are, and you end up making a million dollars for somebody awful. "

" I do like horror films, but I wouldn't ever be interested in putting a horror on stage - blood doesn't equal horror. "

" Usually, in theatre, you're adapting existing material or creating an entirely new play. With the 'Cursed Child,' we have been given the unique opportunity to explore some of the most cherished books and beloved characters ever written, yet work with J. K. Rowling to tell a story from that world that no one yet knows - it's exhilarating. "

" I don't know how films get made, and I think I'll leave it to other people. "