Peter Brook

As a young man, I experimented with everything.

Theatre is, occasionally, capable of moments of truth.

Any scene in Shakespeare can be vulgarised almost out of recognition with the wish to have a modern concept.

When I was 18 or 19, my one ambition was to make a film.

I was raised in public schools, but from the word go, I never believed what the public schools were teaching me. Nor did I like the fact that they were fighting for the historical tradition of England.

An icon painter starts not with Jesus Christ but by finding earth and rubbing. Now what is earth, what are you rubbing in directing?