Shakespearean Themes Quotes

It's a fantastic mirror to us to engage with art, to engage with paintings that are about tragedy, to go see Shakespearean comedies, to read a Greek play... We have always investigated the lightness and darkness of the human soul, in all these forms. So why not do it on television?

If you're a Shakespeare fan, isn't that a way to negotiate sex and death?

Shakespeare did not consider himself the legislator of mankind. He faithfully records man's problems and does not evidently propose to solve them.

What I'm dealing with in 'Hellboy' is a lot different, bigger in a certain way. It's very Shakespearean. It's demons and witches and stuff like that. But it has a similar core to a dude who's trapped in horrible circumstances who's just trying to be a good guy.

When Xena finished I just really wanted to work with Shakespeare's material.

The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary.

Shakespeare is a wonderful language to speak, but it's also a world to get your mind into thematically.

Tales of power and ambition and intrigue and betrayal and desire - when you're telling those in a big way, you automatically want to go to Shakespeare.

Each of my Shakespeare pieces is different to the other, but each espouses a set of philosophies common to all my theatre work.

Happiness was useless to me. It was heartache that filled my purse. What happy man has need of Shakespeare?

With Westerns you have the landscape is important, and it's empty, and only you populate it. When you populate it, you can tell any kind story that Shakespeare told, you can tell in a Western.