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Jerzy Grotowski was my teacher, although his work has had virtually no influence on mine.
Rather, it was his unshakeable belief in the holiness and power of the actor that changed my
life. I believe that the single most important event in theatre is the actor's body in space;
that the actor is an artist, not an interpreter; that acting is dangerous and requires enormous
courage; that acting is both emotional and physical; that the actor's private and personal
history is the source for the creation of the performance. All this comes from
Grotowski.
--JoAnne Akalaitis
We have to have direct contact with the childish. Actors who don't have direct contact with
their childhood are not good actors. They are boring intellectual actors.
--Ingmar Bergman
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