Derek Jarman Quotes

Someday I'd love to do Shakespeare.

I have grown up loving Shakespeare.

There are very few films that work like a novel.

One of things I'd love to do one day is a Shakespeare with Trevor Nunn. I've done musicals with him, but never Shakespeare. There's no one better.

There are only three indispensable things: the audience, the actor and the author. The rest is dross.

I've always been a huge John Guare fan. But Edward Albee - he just can't be beat.

I have always been a huge fan of Shakespeare.

Shakespeare, I come!

I started writing plays, but the fact that plays don't last forever was too much for me to bear.

The problem with the screenplay is that it's not literature, and it's not a film. It's a very weird, technical kind of blueprint that will be absolutely transformed into something else that is not that, you know? Honestly, a screenplay is no literature.

I like Shakespeare. I like some of his work a lot.

Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.

Before acting, I was always attracted to words, to literature - be they the words of Williams, Arthur Miller, Shakespeare or Moliere.

I love movies. Movies have influenced me as a writer.

I've done a lot of Shakespeare as a young man; I was involved with Shakespeare and Company.

Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square.

I did do some Shakespeare on film, it's really difficult. It's really interesting, because I was doing a series in Canada called 'Slings and Arrows' and it was about a company based around the Stratford Festival.

When you do a really good play, the audience and the performers are looking into the same looking glass, the same microscope. And the specimen they are looking at is human life and that's why I do it, that's why I like it.

Shakespeare is rich and beautiful, and it can be an amazing experience to read and to watch and to work on.

Shakespeare's always on my dance card if it can be.

Perhaps because my background is theatrical, I have a great affinity with the classics. Hamlet has always been a character of great interest to me and a character I would really love to play. Or a character in a Tennessee Williams play, maybe Tom in 'The Glass Menagerie.'

I try to picture my books being acted out.

I'm a big lover of Shakespeare. In fact, the only plays that I've ever done professionally in New York have been Shakespearian.

I love theater, and I've always been a huge movie buff.

There's a very famous South African playwright named Athol Fugard, and I'd be in any play he's ever did.