“Our function as playwrights to some extent is to make audiences see wi...” — Peter Shaffer Quote

Our function as playwrights to some extent is to make audiences see with their ears, because films make us see with our eyes much better.

I was born in Liverpool in England, and I lived there for the first nine years of my life.

A part of me is always envious of people who live in the present and are sustained by a sense of spontaneity. Even dogs have that capacity: they're always wanting to participate in something, and I don't often have that element in me.

We... our war began September the 3rd 1939, with the invasion of Poland by Germany, and thereafter the great state of danger in England at that time, with the bombings, necessitated the evacuation of children.

In the fact that 'Vogue' is someone that can help guide enormous audiences through this fascinating world, I would like to think we are as influential and actually are now reaching so many more people than we ever dreamt of back in the Fifties or the Sixties.

A lot of people don't give their audiences credit. You can leave it a little mysterious. They can think about it.

I experienced many moments when we were able to overcome language barriers. When they like something during our shows, American audiences would tend to show our fox signs or move their bodies.

The role of an orchestra in the 21st century isn't just playing, it's about developing future audiences and performers.