Moliere exaggerates common vices of mankind: lust, greed, misanthropy, hypocrisy. We all have a touch of these.

Theater is a local art. You perform for the people in the theater that day.

I'm a workaholic, and I know it. And I don't care to deal with it.

I believe that the arts of a culture are terribly important and yet almost indefensible.

You can't argue that you have to have art, and prove it to anybody. Why should I give $1,000 to art when there are people starving? Of course, that's true. But just because you can't, theoretically, defend the arts, or make a sensible argument for their preservation, doesn't mean they're not important.

Hamlet is the result of Shakespeare's work on Brutus.