In his own words

by Alan Ayckbourn 
a collection of short, pithy sayings
 from "The Crafty Art of Playmaking"

As my own personal mentor Stephen Joseph put it when I first started my career, directing is about creating an atmosphere in which others can create.

In my experience, actors are happiest when they feel they have been offered the creative choice of where they sit or how they arrange the room in which they are going to live.

I have a great fear of allowing a play to become text-bound.  what the characters are saying is important, yes, but what the characters are doing whilst they're saying it is of equal importance.  And, of course, what they're not saying whilst they're doing it.