It takes courage to recognize the real as opposed to the convenient.
Don’t think I am going to let Bob Hoskins take all his clothes off and me not take a look? I just had a quick look up and down, like you would.
I can’t read scripts any more because of the trouble with my eyes.
People think you know beforehand when you win an Oscar – I can assure you you don’t.
In contrast, the control you have in a theatre is very attractive to me.
Sometimes nudity is gratuitous. We just live in a society where everything goes.
It was good to learn so early. They’re not going to be kind to you. You have to do it and get on, and then gulp down and get better.
The Lord Chamberlin was censoring scripts when I first came into the theater.
I’ve figured out what to do so far, but it’s always the next thing you come to where the man with the bucket of ice cold water is waiting – whoosh! in your face. That’s why you work with directors who know what to tell you to do.
The difficulty with any sort of esteem is that more is expected of you.
Actually, what I miss are people corpsing on stage.
Never fall out of love with life.
I don’t like reading scripts very much. I like it better for someone to just explain to me what it is about this story.
Seriously, though, I think I never ceased to be grateful of the fact that I am able to do a job that I really love – I never got over that.
I started off as a theatre designer, and by some extraordinary circumstance I saw something in Stratford-upon-Avon, and realized that that’s the kind of design I want, but also that that’s the kind of designer I’ll never be.
I trained as a designer, so I’m always terribly keen about what I’m going to look like.
I work out the other bits, too, but I need to know what I look like, very early on. And then it’s like a template; I’ll fill that person out. If I get that out of the way, then I’m all right.
I would hate people to think bossy is all I can do.
I wanted to be a set designer when I was young.
It is true that there are few plays of Shakespeare that I haven’t done.