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" The whole notion of never growing up is incredibly intense and emotional. "

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" 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. "

" I had a lovely time growing up. But I was very aware of the miners' strike going on, friends' families collapsing, and people being unemployed. "

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

" I'm fascinated to see how 'Black Watch' connects with an American audience. "

" I never get star-struck. I never fanboy. Ever, ever, ever. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" A first preview is not exactly a pleasant experience for directors and actors. You're never as raw as when the audience first comes in. "

" I want to understand the anger in the world. "

" The more everything gets digitalised, the more precious the live experience of going to the theatre is. "

" I realise that there's something about fantasy, whether it's written by the Grimm Brothers or J. K. Rowling or Thorne or J. M. Barrie, that it gets closer to the human experience than realism every could. "

" I know Australians are no strangers to pubs, but in the U.K., the pub is a real meeting place because the houses can be quite small, so the pub is an extension of the living space. "

" No space should be safe from theatre. "

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

" I worked on new plays at the Traverse and did my best work in Scotland for years, so I never had ambitions for things like Disney. "

" We never want to update 'Black Watch,' because it's about a moment in time, and through that moment, it manages to speak about Afghanistan and all other wars. This play is 'about' Iraq, but it's actually about every war that's ever been or will ever be. "

" In theatre, previews are the first draft of a show. I strongly believe that. The only way we can truly tell whether that draft works is by having an audience present. "

" Where film can eat up story, theatre needs space and breath. "

" You can only really get to any truth by telling peoples' stories. "

" I hate rules. I hate 'This is the way things are done'. I hate a lack of reinvention. I hate theatre as an archeological exercise. Theatre needs to be urgent. "

" Some actors just have a quality, a way of combining music and character and story, where everything just falls into place. "

" In film, if you've got to do a scene in a swimming pool, you do a scene in a swimming pool. If you've got to blow up a car, you blow up a car. In theater, you can't do that, and therefore, you have the opportunity to engage the audience's imagination in a way that's rich. "

" Austerity has led us to a terrible philosophy where we think we've got to cut back on everything that's 'frippery', like the arts. "

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

" I'm a sucker for emotionally exploitative cello. "

" 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. "

" I've never understood why anyone would want to join the army, but that's irrelevant. The fact of the matter is that, as long as we go on voting in governments who are prepared to take troops into an illegal war, that army is a necessity. "