If I get to wrapped up in how I have to be, or what I have to do, things gradually get worse and worse.
In reading plays, however, it should always be remembered that any play, however great, loses much when not seen in action.
Every now and then I have to teach directing. The thing about the theatre is that the most important thing you can do as a director is to make sure that everybody is in the same world - you have to create the world and make sure everyone buys into it.