Peter Brook

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

Nothing in theatre has any meaning before or after. Meaning is now.

A stage space has two rules: (1) Anything can happen and (2) Something must happen.

I've always worked a bit like a cook in a big restaurant, where you've got lots and lots of things laid out and you go and look into one cauldron and you look into the other and you see what's coming to the boil.