"I find, to my amazement, that I have reached the age of 90!" — Peter Brook

The life of a play begins and ends in the moment of performance. This is where author, actors, and directors express all they have to say. If the event has a future, this can only lie in the memories of those who were present and who retained a trace in their hearts.

If, in English, we speak words, the French speak thoughts.

The thing that I have a horror of is ideological theatre - Shakespeare never told us how to think.

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

The meaning of a theater event is that none of us could see something so clearly as with the new energy that is brought with the meeting of a theme, actors living it, and an audience gradually entering it to live it with them. At that moment, a certain light appears, revealing what we would never have thought of on our own.

Every choice I've ever made has been dictated by a formless hunch rather than by strict logic.

I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage. A man walks across this empty space whilst someone else is watching him, and this is all that is needed for an act of theatre to be engaged.

No act of government can save the world.

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I find, to my amazement, that I have reached the age of 90!