Peter Hall

“The best theatre is writing on the wind.”

“We are what we do, not what we say we are.”

“You can't direct a play as well as you can a film. You can't control it. And there's a lovely thing about it.”

“The theatre is a place where you can say things you can't say anywhere else.”

“The audience is the final collaborator.”

“All acting is a process of exposure. You're exposing your own personality, you're exposing your own feelings.”

“The most important thing in the theatre is the text.”

“Directing is a way of saying, 'I have an opinion about this.'”

“A play is not a report. It's an experience.”

“I don't think you can teach acting. You can only create an environment in which it can grow.”

“Subsidy is the only way to have a theatre that is not just about making money.”

“Popularity is the great enemy of art.”

“An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down.”