Quotes by Edward Hall

• It's amazing. I can't believe how brilliant the whole thing is - my daughter, Georgia, is just wonderful.
• We have cut the text, but what remains are Shakespeare's words.
• I was a terrible actor. The analytical part of my mind never quite let go.
• I'd love to do some new plays.
• While trying to protect the republic, the conspirators in Julius Caesar enable Mark Antony to triumph. In Rose Rage, the more Henry VI tries to fix things, the more they go wrong.
• Oh, come off it, I've only directed three plays for the RSC.
• People come to the theatre to be excited and uplifted - I want to inspire my audience.
• Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other.
• Theatre is about people, not buildings. Incalculable damage has been done to the expert talent a company needs - from wardrobe to lighting technicians.
• We felt that although they were patchy, there was a tremendous political energy in the Henry plays.
• Normally, an actress has to work to bring out her male side. In our case, the dynamic is reversed. The actor playing her modelled himself on Sharon Stone.
• Each organism, no matter how simple or complex, has around it a sacred bubble of space, a bit of mobile territoriality which only a few other organisms are allowed to penetrate and then only for short periods of time.
• The information is in the people, not in your head.
• For him to have understood me would have meant reorganizing his thinking... giving up his intellectual ballast, and few people are willing to risk such a radical move.
• Behind every piece of paper lies a human situation.
• Culture is not made up but something that evolves which is human.
• I may be able to spot arrowheads on the desert but a refrigerator is a jungle in which I am easily lost.
• Man is used to the fact that there are languages which he does not at first understand and which must be learned, but because art is primarily visual he expects that he should get the message immediately and is apt to be affronted if he doesn't.
• The future for us is the foreseeable future. The South Asian, however, feels that it is perfectly realistic to think of a 'long time' in terms of thousands of years.
• Now, you can't tell me, we have the only God in the whole world. You can't tell me that nobody else has God.
• We should never denigrate any other culture but rather help people to understand the relationship between their own culture and the dominant culture. When you understand another culture or language, it does not mean that you have to lose your own culture.
• Age affects how people experience time.
• The reason man does not experience his true cultural self is that until he experiences another self as valid he has little basis for validating his own self.
• Two points that are very important points to remember and ask: Is it real and does it work?
• How man evolved with such an incredible reservoir of talent and such fantastic diversity isn't completely understood... he knows so little and has nothing to measure himself against.