"Any good piece of material like Shakespeare..." - Quote by Denzel Washington

“When you make a movie it's always interesting, because you end up in places you never would as a normal visitor or tourist.”

“It's simple: You get a part. You play a part. You play it well. You do your work and you go home. And what is wonderful about movies is that once they're done, they belong to the people. Once you make it, it's what they see. That's where my head is at.”

“I'm not a film buff. I don't watch a lot of movies.”

“No form of nature is inferior to art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms.”

“In Haydn's oratorios, the notes present to the imagination not only motions, as, of the snake, the stag, and the elephant, but colors also; as the green grass.”

“The sculptor, the painter the musician the dancer, or any artist, if he can first obtain celebrate in Paris, acquires very easily the esteem and eulogy of other countries.”

“All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.”

“The seeker is at liberty to extract from this treasure any meaning he likes, so as to enable him to enforce in his life the central teaching.”

“In designing the scenery and costumes for any of Shakespeare's plays, the first thing the artist has to settle is the best date for the drama. This should be determined by the general spirit of the play more than by any actual historical references which may occur in it.”