"It would be a serious oversight to limit our understanding of the impact of theology to strictly religious art, and overlook its pervasive role in shaping human understanding and artistic expression thereof within any given culture-regardless of the subject matter at hand."

“I hate the word 'production'...it's a ceremony, it's a ritual...you should go out of the theatre stronger and more human than when you went in.”

Source : "Ariane Mnouchkine and the Théâtre du Soleil: a life in theatre". Interview with Andrew Dickson, www.theguardian.com. August 10, 2012.

“Who can control his fate? asks the ruined Othello. No one, indeed. But everyone controls his option, chooses his alternative.”

“We realized that YouTube is a rocket ship and that this is an incredibly big space. I started agitating for it. I was the most passionate voice for acquiring YouTube: 'The price tag seems really high, but it is going to be worth it.”

“It's very important to know that we packed it right because it is a safety issue for coming home.”

Source : Source: www.broadwayworld.com

“As a form of moral insurance, at least, literature is much more dependable than a system of beliefs or a philosophical doctrine. Since there are no laws that can protect us from ourselves, no criminal code is capable of preventing a true crime against literature; though we can condemn the material suppression of literature - the persecution of writers, acts of censorship, the burning of books - we are powerless when it comes to its worst violation: that of not reading the books. For that crime, a person pays with his whole life; if the offender is a nation, it pays with its history.”

“I want to be where your bare foot walks, because maybe before you step, you'll look at the ground. I want that blessing”

“Many a play is like a painted backdrop, something to be looked at from the front. An Ibsen play is like a black forest, somethingyou can enter, something you can walk about in. There you can lose yourself: you can lose yourself. And once inside, you find such wonderful glades, such beautiful, sunlit places.”

“It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology.”